Her life is no fairy tale.
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
- Harm to children
- Sexual violence
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Mar 20262/10
**_Vulgar, violent, darkly satirical updating of Lil’ Red Riding Hood_** I’ve seen two of writer/director Matthew Bright’s movies before seeing this: The enlightening and moving “Dark Angel: The Ascent” from two years earlier and the well-done “Ted Bundy” from six years later. (He wrote the former and wrote/directed the latter). With “Freeway” he had way more money in which to work and it could’ve been his ticket to a bigtime filmmaker, yet it bombed at the box office. However, critics tended to laud it (Siskel & Ebert, for instance, gave it a ‘thumbs up’); and it went on to develop a cult following. It’s a crime thriller meshed with hard-edged dark comedy. Despite the title, it’s not a road movie and the second half becomes a women-in-prison flick for the most part. If you can roll with its wild audaciousness and sexually explicit verbiage, it can be fun and amusing, but I was disappointed after seeing Bright’s aforementioned “Dark Angel,” which had nine-times LESS the budget. “Freeway” is technically proficient and the actors do a fine job; it just wallows in foulness to the point of being an unpleasant experience. I’m sure Mark Bright was aiming for a Tarantino film, but he forg
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Cast
- Kiefer SutherlandBob Wolverton
- Reese WitherspoonVanessa Lutz
- Wolfgang BodisonDetective Breer
- Dan HedayaDetective Wallace
- Amanda PlummerRamona Lutz
- Brooke ShieldsMrs. Wolverton
- Michael T. WeissLarry
- Bokeem WoodbineChopper
- Guillermo DíazFlacco
- Brittany MurphyRhonda
Crew
- Matthew BrightDirector
- Matthew BrightWriter
- John ThomasDirector of Photography
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
- Maysie HoyEditor
- Chris HanleyProducer
- Brad WymanProducer
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