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03/24/02
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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03/26/09
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08/09/02
Top CriticIf you're into despicable trash that is completely without redeeming value, Freeway is for you.
01/01/00
Freeway is not good satire, it's not good comedy, and it's not in the least bit entertaining.
02/27/01
It'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
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
We are clobbered with excess as if we wouldn't understand a subtle fable.
04/17/02
No review available.
06/09/05
No review available.
08/29/02
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
This is not a film for everyone, in fact, it’s main appeal is in the gross fascination for the grotesque.
01/01/00
It's just the sort of thing Oliver Stone strove so hard to achieve in Natural Born Killers, and [writer/director Matthew] Bright pulls it off effortlessly.
07/30/03
There's not much edification in store, and [director] Bright cruises over some bumpy plot holes, but the teen's perspective does put a black comic spotlight on wider social hypocrisies.
01/26/06
A hip, corrosive and often hilarious entertainment, the movie strikes another blow for the American independent film.
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
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
No review available.
09/28/05
No review available.
10/10/05
The imperfect teenager fairy tale for the 1990s.
01/01/00
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