Freedomland -
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Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price.
A tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting?
Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the biggest story of her career.
As the search for the alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the animosity between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning increasingly ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story.
Movie information
| Release Date (USA): | 2006-02-17 |
| Rating (USA): | R |
| Release Date (UK): | 2004-04-28 |
| Rating (UK) : | 15 |
| Director: | Joe Roth |
| Producer: | Charles Newirth |
| Studio: | Revolution Studios |
| Writer/s: | Richard Price |
Cast
| Samuel L. Jackson | Lorenzo Council |
| Julianne Moore | Brenda Martin |
| Edie Falco | Karen Collucci |
| Ron Eldard | Danny Martin |
| William Forsythe | |
| Aunjanue Ellis | |
| Anthony Mackie |
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