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SpringWidgets Spiritual Insight in Movies All other considerations aside, how spiritual is a movie? The scale rates from profoundly spiritual (5) to not at all spiritual (1). Courtesy of HollywoodJesus.com.
A bruised and bloodied white woman named Brenda Martin stumbles into the emergency room, claiming that a black man stole her car with her four-year-old son in the backseat. Veteran detective Lorenzo Council is assigned to investigate the case, and despite reservations about Brenda's story, he launches an all-out search for the abducted boy.
Release Date: February 17, 2006 Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: Joe Roth
Screenwriter: Richard Price Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Aunjanue Ellis Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for language and some violent content) Official Website: Freedomland.com
Based on Richard Price's bestselling novel, which opens as a bruised and bloodied white woman named Brenda Martin stumbles into a Dempsey, New Jersey, emergency room, claiming that a black man stole her car with her four-year-old son in the backseat. Veteran detective Lorenzo Council is assigned to investigate the case, and despite reservations about Brenda's story, he launches an all-out search for the abducted boy. Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter for the local newspaper, also suspects that Brenda is hiding something, and she befriends the grief-stricken mother in an attempt to break the biggest story of her career. But as the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, smoldering racial tensions between the predominantly black city of Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon, threaten to explode.
This
movie intrigued me because
of it's incredible actor line
up.
Samuel
L. Jackson, Julianne Moore and Mrs. Soprano herself Edie
Falco. When you have a cast of such caliber all you need
next is a good story. And I thank it's that good story that
made Freedom Land an intriguing thriller. While this movie
may have some unanswered subplots and confusion it was well
worth the ticket... — Continued
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