Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 02/17/06 Home Video 05/30/06 MPAA Rating Rated R for language and some violent content Running Time 1 hour 32 minutes Genre Drama Director Joe Roth Writer Richard Price Cast Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Aunjanue Ellis Studio Sony Pictures Entertainment |
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 (Julianne Moore) recounts to Dempsy police
detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) -- 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
fouryear-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat
of the stolen car.
Led by activist Karen Collucci (Edie Falco), 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.
--© Sony Pictures Entertainment
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 (Julianne Moore) recounts to Dempsy police
detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) -- 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
fouryear-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat
of the stolen car.
Led by activist Karen Collucci (Edie Falco), 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.
--© Sony Pictures Entertainment
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