Freedomland(2006)

Poster of Freedomland

Synopsis

Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during the interrogation Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car. Led by activist Karen Collucci, members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective …
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In Theaters

  • February 17, 2006

MPAA Rating

R (for language and some violent content)

Genres

Drama, Crime, Adaptation

Run Time

1 hour 52 minutes

Distributors

Sony Pictures Releasing

Box Office

$12,512,886

Directors

Joe Roth

Director

CAST

Samuel L. Jackson

Lorenzo Council

Julianne Moore

Brenda Martin

Edie Falco

Karen Collucci

Ron Eldard

Danny Martin

William Forsythe

Boyle

Aunjanue Ellis

Felicia
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