Freedomland (US Version) DVD Region 1
Samuel L. Jackson (Actor)
| Philip Bosco (Actor)
| William Forsythe (Actor)
| Anthony Mackie (Actor)
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Richard Price’s novel FREEDOMLAND is brought to life in this 2006 adaptation. A carjacking-turned-kidnapping provides the set-up for a complex story of racial and class divide, as black detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) attempts to uncover the truth in victim Brenda Martin’s story. Bleeding and dazed in an inner city ER, Brenda (Julianne Moore) explains that on her way home from work in the projects of fictional Dempsey, New Jersey, a black man assaulted her and stole her car. Matters are intensified when it’s revealed that her 4-year-old son was asleep in the backseat.
Novelist Price (CLOCKERS), who also wrote the screenplay, has never shied away from the blunt realities and moral ambiguities of the contemporary urban experience. Though Price’s vision is often unrelentingly bleak, and his characters are far from saintly , there’s a weary hopefulness that birddogs them throughout. Stars Jackson and Moore turn in performances as incendiary as the film’s subject, and the excellent supporting cast (Edie Falco and Anthony Mackie, among them) tackles these complex characters with both nuance and fire. Director Joe Roth (CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS) is given the monumental task of bringing Price’s epic to the screen and his visual approach works well--all cinematic chiaroscuro and icy hues. Still, Price’s themes of racial and class tension are rough, murky waters and require both a bold vision and a deft touch. As much as Roth is clearly passionate about the task at hand--setting an emotional fever pitch from the word go--the hopeful resolution he desires is not so easily attained, if attainable at all. FREEDOMLAND is a tough one, and although flawed, in the end, it’s an emotionally complex, politically provocative film worth viewing.
"[Moore] does a scrupulous job of playing a forlorn broken-down mother....Jackson makes Council a torn and tortured soul, with a dicey legacy of his own." -- Grade: B-
- Owen, Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 02/24/2006
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| Product Title: | Freedomland (US Version) Freedomland (US Version) Freedomland (US Version) Freedomland (US Version) Freedomland (US Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Samuel L. Jackson (Actor) | Philip Bosco (Actor) | William Forsythe (Actor) | Anthony Mackie (Actor) | Scott Rudin (Actor) | Edie Falco (Actor) | Aunjanue Ellis (Actor) | Ron Eldard (Actor) | Joe Roth (Actor) | Dominick Lombardozzi (Actor) | Latanya Richardson (Actor) | Julianne Moore (Actor) 森姆積遜 (Actor) | Philip Bosco (Actor) | 威廉科斯非 (Actor) | Anthony Mackie (Actor) | Scott Rudin (Actor) | Edie Falco (Actor) | Aunjanue Ellis (Actor) | Ron Eldard (Actor) | Joe Roth (Actor) | Dominick Lombardozzi (Actor) | Latanya Richardson (Actor) | Julianne Moore (Actor) 森姆积逊 (Actor) | Philip Bosco (Actor) | William Forsythe (Actor) | Anthony Mackie (Actor) | Scott Rudin (Actor) | Edie Falco (Actor) | Aunjanue Ellis (Actor) | Ron Eldard (Actor) | Joe Roth (Actor) | Dominick Lombardozzi (Actor) | Latanya Richardson (Actor) | Julianne Moore (Actor) サミュエル・L.ジャクソン (Actor) | Philip Bosco (Actor) | ウィリアム・フォーサイス (Actor) | Anthony Mackie (Actor) | Scott Rudin (Actor) | Edie Falco (Actor) | Aunjanue Ellis (Actor) | Ron Eldard (Actor) | Joe Roth (Actor) | Dominick Lombardozzi (Actor) | Latanya Richardson (Actor) | Julianne Moore (Actor) Samuel L. Jackson (Actor) | Philip Bosco (Actor) | William Forsythe (Actor) | Anthony Mackie (Actor) | Scott Rudin (Actor) | Edie Falco (Actor) | Aunjanue Ellis (Actor) | Ron Eldard (Actor) | Joe Roth (Actor) | Dominick Lombardozzi (Actor) | Latanya Richardson (Actor) | Julianne Moore (Actor) |
| Director: | James Newton Howard James Newton Howard James Newton Howard James Newton Howard James Newton Howard |
| Producer: | Charles J. Newirth Charles J. Newirth Charles J. Newirth Charles J. Newirth Charles J. Newirth |
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| Release Date: | 2006-05-30 |
| UPC Code: | 043396114401 |
| Language: | English, French |
| Subtitles: | English, French |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Color Information: | Color |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it? |
| Rating: | R (MPAA) |
| Publisher: | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Package Weight: | 113 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004364349 |
Product Information
Director: Joe Roth
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround Sound - French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Subtitles - French - Optional
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround Sound - French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Subtitles - French - Optional
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