Freeway somehow manages to be hip, imaginative and hilarious. Road film, comedy, prison drama and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers all rolled into one.
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05/14/03
Freeway (1996)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:26
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A hip, darkly comic on-the-road tale about a young woman who has an unfortunate encounter with a figurative big, bad wolf while hitching a ride to grandma's house to escape her abusive family.... [More]
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Amanda Plummer
Director: Matthew Bright
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Reviews for Freeway
A wild, audacious drive-in attraction that takes the 'high' from 'highbrow' and the 'low' from 'lowdown' and shakes them up.
01/01/00
Both grimly funny and thought-provoking.
01/01/00
Top CriticHilariously cheap but oddly reflective at times.
01/01/00
It's one of the sickly funniest movies you're ever likely to encounter.
01/01/00
A white-trash riff on Little Red Riding Hood, the oddly titled Freeway is a road movie that hits a dead end.
01/01/00
Like it or hate it (or both), you have to admire its skill, and the over-the-top virtuosity of Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland.
01/01/00
Top CriticFreeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.
05/20/03
Top CriticOne of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.
02/13/08
If you're into despicable trash that is completely without redeeming value, Freeway is for you.
01/01/00
The great cast brings light-hearted humor and credibility to what could otherwise have been seen as a sickly exploitative (though well-written and directed) script.
06/05/02
Freeway is not good satire, it's not good comedy, and it's not in the least bit entertaining.
02/27/01
Cynical, stylish and witty.
07/12/02
Top CriticRude in the way the truth is rude -- only funnier.
06/18/02
Top CriticI didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me.
10/15/02
We are clobbered with excess as if we wouldn't understand a subtle fable.
04/17/02
Writer-director Matthew Bright does a great job for a first-time director. The plot is fascinating as it unfolds. Until the very end of the film you really can't tell what's coming next.
01/01/01
The imperfect teenager fairy tale for the 1990s.
01/01/00
Alive with the luscious turn-ons of sex and danger, Freeway is the most impressive debut film I've seen all year.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's too drawn-out, too talky and, at the most crucial moment, needlessly implausible, to sustain its humor and large dose of violence.
02/14/01
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