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Freedomland

  • 20062006
  • RR
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
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Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore in Freedomland (2006)
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A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
IMDb RATING
5.1/10
16K
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  • Director
    • Joe Roth
  • Writer
    • Richard Price(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Julianne Moore
    • Samuel L. Jackson
    • Edie Falco
Top credits
  • Director
    • Joe Roth
  • Writer
    • Richard Price(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Julianne Moore
    • Samuel L. Jackson
    • Edie Falco
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    • 203User reviews
    • 97Critic reviews
    • 43Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 3 nominations

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    Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore in Freedomland (2006)
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    Julianne Moore
    Julianne Moore
    • Brenda Martinas Brenda Martin
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel L. Jackson
    • Lorenzo Councilas Lorenzo Council
    Edie Falco
    Edie Falco
    • Karen Colluccias Karen Collucci
    Ron Eldard
    Ron Eldard
    • Danny Martinas Danny Martin
    William Forsythe
    William Forsythe
    • Boyleas Boyle
    Aunjanue Ellis
    Aunjanue Ellis
    • Feliciaas Felicia
    Anthony Mackie
    Anthony Mackie
    • Billy Williamsas Billy Williams
    LaTanya Richardson Jackson
    LaTanya Richardson Jackson
    • Marieas Marie
    Clarke Peters
    Clarke Peters
    • Reverend Longwayas Reverend Longway
    Peter Friedman
    Peter Friedman
    • Lt. Goldas Lt. Gold
    Domenick Lombardozzi
    Domenick Lombardozzi
    • Leo Sullivanas Leo Sullivan
    Aasif Mandvi
    Aasif Mandvi
    • Dr. Anil Chatterjeeas Dr. Anil Chatterjee
    Philip Bosco
    Philip Bosco
    • Priestas Priest
    Fly Williams III
    • Rafikas Rafik
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    Portia
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    Haneefah Wood
    Haneefah Wood
    • Vickyas Vicky…
    Dorian Missick
    Dorian Missick
    • Jason Councilas Jason Council
    Joe Forbrich
    Joe Forbrich
    • Halas Hal
    • Director
      • Joe Roth
    • Writer
      • Richard Price(screenplay) (novel)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Michael Winterbottom was the original Director, and did extensive work before leaving this project.
    • Goofs
      The scenes at the Freedomland facility appear to be in late fall/winter - trees are bare, subjects are wearing heavy clothing. When Lorenzo interviews Brenda, he states on the tape recorder the date of the interview is May.
    • Quotes

      Lorenzo Council: Kiss my ass, brotherfucker.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Freedomland/Winter Passing/Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story/Eight Below/Unknown White Male (2006)

    User reviews203

    Review
    Top review
    4/10
    Cheap Race Hustling Movie Trying to Be Profound
    This movie was a crock from the start. The writer Price is some white liberal who anointed himself as an interpreter of inner city blacks to us ignorant white yahoos. His previous venture was the better "Clockers", which was made into a lame movie by Spike Lee. In a country where the two latest racial flaps were a black whore falsely accusing 3 frat boys of rape and that case dragged on for a year in spite of the fact EVERY shred of evidence pointed to their innocence and the woman changed her story with the weather. Don't forget how every white academic liberal and their black studies cohort spewed venom on the students based on the old ante-bellum "slaves being raped by massa" myth, which goes against reality where there are 112 black on white rapes for every case of the reverse. Or the Jena 6 case where six violent black youths beat a white kid silly. But since some nooses were hung months earlier, which had nothing to do with either race or the kid they beat, the black power movement and the white liberal drones descended on Jena to exonerate the punks and excoriate the town. But, in their defense, I do add that attempted murder was too steep a charge, but those Jena 6 punks belong in jail, not addressing the NAACP or appearing on BET.

    Back to the movie, this wigged out white mother, Julianne Moore, claimed she was carjacked and her kid was taken from her, and this happened in the projects. She is no racist, as a matter of fact she works in the same project in the day care center, along with her son who is in the class. So naturally everyone goes haywire trying to find the kid. There are shades of the 1994 Susan Smith case, the murdering Southern mom who killed her kids then tried to blame it on a black man. But, as I remember, the police never bought her story and never shut down a project either. Her brother is a white cop in the neighboring working class suburb. Natch, he's a racist and angry as heck. Yet even he thinks his sister is a loser who is hiding something. So the suburban cops buffalo themselves into the city and shut down the project This is the first bit of unreality. As if the city and the mayor are going to put up with this. As if ten thousand lawyers, civil rights protesters, Sharpton rabble rousers and Nation of Islam thugs wouldn't descend on this city in a matter of hours; this in the middle of New Jersey not the Sudan, in 1999, not 1949. That alone makes most of the other racial drama superfluous. Then there is the other persistent whine about "Our black kids go missing and you do nothing, but when a white kid goes missing....", like the black on black crime whine(as if black on white crime is acceptable), this falls on deaf ears to me since it is the criminal street code of silence and the horrid conditions of black inner city "families" that hinder solving and creates the conditions for those crimes and tragedies.

    The movie quickly devolves into an almost father - daughter relation between Detective Council, Sam Jackson, and the distraught mother Brenda Martin, played by Julianne Moore. Credit must be given to Ms. Moore for her thankless performance of a really messed up woman, as well as to Edie Falco, who played a woman who finds lost children and helps crack the case. Samuel Jackson played the requisite strong black guy who sets all the racist whites, as well as his brood in the projects, straight. He even had a chance to quell the requisite racial confrontation in the end by telling everyone the case was solved, but that would have been too simple. I wonder if all those black cops in New Orleans, the ones who looted and abandoned their posts during the flood or committed violent crimes on the side should invite him in as a role model? He even has a nice working class white guy cop sidekick, William Forsythe, just to make us trailer trash feel a little better about themselves, "Find a strong black man to teach you and you can be enlightened as I am", is what the writer seems to be saying through him. As a missing child case, this might had made a good Lifetime movie. But with the hyped up, dishonestly created racial tension as the theme, it is an exercise in affirmative action film-making designed to elicit outrage when none was called for.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 17, 2006 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sony Pictures (United States)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Vùng Đất Tự Do
    • Filming locations
      • Seaview Hospital, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Revolution Studios
      • Scott Rudin Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $37,665,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $12,512,886
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,833,562
      • Feb 19, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $14,655,628
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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