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Freedomland [DVD] [2006]
enlarge	Director: Joe Roth Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Philip Bosco, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, William Forsythe Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £0.76 as of 22/11/2009 16:22 GMT details You Save: £15.23 (95%) New (17) Used (27) Collectible (1) from £0.21 Seller: direct-2-u Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 28192 Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dutch (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 113 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5035822126633 ASIN: B000GHRC6C Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: September 4, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Freedomland - good Saturday night entertainment January 22, 2007 Dr. M. Reid (Ballyclare, Northern Ireland) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful On the whole a good movie. Samuel L Jackson gives a good performance (if not different from previous roles). Film deals with a number of hard topics (missing children, race riots) which for me was at a good level. br / br /Definately worth watching Got a lot more right than it got wrong! February 27, 2009 Nick (London, England) Not seen many good reviews of this film, which is a huge shame. In attempting to get a complex novel into the multiplexes, maybe too much is touched on without having time to be fully explored, like attempting to fit a season of 'The Wire' in feature film length. (Fans of 'the Wire''ll spot a few familiar faces, by the way, and one of that series' writers Richard Price adapted this from his own novel.) Nonetheless, I thought it was a curious, and oddly beautiful, film. Samuel L Jackson and Julianne Moore both put in generous, open performances. They may well have played a cop and distressed mother in other films, but never quite like this, the drama here on almost a 'spiritual' level, what moves across their faces hugely emotive and deeply drawn on. It would be a huge pity if this film didn't find an appreciative audience, and the actors, writer and director their due praise because it's heart and soul are entirely in the right place, which is up there on the screen. seen worse, seen better January 19, 2007 RD 4 out of 4 found this review helpful Tough task trying to decide between 2 or 3 stars for this movie. I went for 3 as i can see myself watching it again if the situation ever arose. Clearly wasn't too terrible an ordeal. br / br /Good points: br /1. Tackles racial discrimination well in an in-your-face hard hitting manner br /2. Strong acting (though Julianne Moore's character can get irritating with all the crying and stuff) br /3. Not a half bad plot br / br /Bad points: br /1. I figured out the core of the ending about a minute into the movie so something went wrong somewhere! br /2. It started to drag out towards the end. Everytime I thought it was fading out there was another unnecessary scene. br / br /So what's it about? : br /The movie starts with Julianne Moore walking into a hospital with blood stained hands. Samuel L Jackson (Det. Lorenzo) is the veteran cop known throughout the district who is called in to run the case. He soon finds out that she was car jacked in 'the hood' (if there's a more PC term please let me know!) The twist is her son was asleep in the backseat and her brother is a (racist?) cop. br /This prompts a high alert search for car, perp and child via a clamp down of the whole neighbourhood. Tensions begin to rise between cops and civilians which threatens to boil over into fully blown riots. The only people who seem to be on the side of the people and actively trying to prevent it are Det Lorenzo and his partner. Could've been great October 13, 2007 Joe Cutts (Sheffield, south yorkshire United Kingdom) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful Freedomland is the kind of complex, multifacetted story that would always prove difficult to convert from text to celluloid. While Richard Price's novel brilliantly captures the simmering racial frustrations, this, the movie version, goes in for sentimentality surrounding the disappearance of a child as the focal point. Where the novel really built the tension between black and white with the empiricist (Price's own word) whites believing their own and the black community being forced to defend, little of this is projected in the film. Whereas the book explored the dark side of human nature to jump at an opportunity to highlight a cause, the film barely skims the notion, and where in the book we're thrown into the middle of the fear and excitement of a massive race riot, the film relies on only a handful of extras to attempt to recreate streets of rage and fire. A movie about the consensus of a community needs to show the strength of such with numbers, and this film simply lacks in that department. br / If you're a Richard Price fan you'll be disappointed by the film, but it was almost worth watching the DVD for the interview with Richard. br / All in all, a highly forgettable film, there's little wonder it went straight to DVD and is extremely obscure. Too bad, the book is fantastic. It's terrible September 8, 2007 DCD (Norwich UK) Lame acting, lame script, contrived story-line. I can't believe Samuel L. agreed to act in this tripe. Juliane Moore's acting was particularly poor. During some of the "emotional" and "revealing" scenes, I found myself laughing rather than empathising. It was that bad. br / br /The film did not rise above mediocre at any point in time, even when the crucial revelation was made. The lowest point? Probably the "race riots". What an utter farce. Are we to believe that a detective would have the authority to impose, let alone sustain a "lockdown" over several days on the basis of the evidence presented in the story? I doubt it would have happened in 60s Mississippi, let alone New York in 2006! br / br /I'm not normally moved to review films. I avoid the ones most people slate and when i've viewed one that most people rate highly and I enjoy it too, I can't be bothered to repeat what everyone else says. However, I viewed this banal nonsense on the strength of a 31/2 star average review. Hopefully I've redressed the balance a bit and with so many good films to watch out there, I might have saved someone a similar waste of time.

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