Freedomland

The film's best and least fussy scene brings these two together in an uninterrupted take.....Price's screenplay struggles to corral 546 pages of plot.....She is excellent.....First-rate actors bail out second-rate directors all the time....As for director Roth, he is a successful producer who directs like a producer learning to be a director..... ... Full Review

half a good movie is better than none....While not as bad as Kranks , Freedomland falters too much to be regarded as anything more than a lumbering disappointment.....Overall, the flick seemed crisp and detailed.....For one, the movie becomes painfully chatty.....very good picture and audio.... ... Full Review

Freedomland's troubles.... ... Full Review

attempts to highlight the performances over the story.....A jumbled, obnoxious racial drama, the picture is sunk by director Joe Roth's inability to actually do his job....Moore is an intensely talented actress, but without a proper direction, she can all too easily propel herself to Mars with her overacted hysteria.....in 2006, the tensions have been processed into a drab, uninspired, and coldly calculated film.....February 24th, 2006 While I adore the film, there were brief times in Paul Thomas Anderson's ... Full Review

Julianne Moore's performance is the most interesting aspect of the film....It began as a moody, dark thriller....Roth contributes considerably to the film's downfall.....the characters have ceased to exist as people and the plot has become the writer's arbitrary whim rather than a living story..... ... Full Review

A carjacking, a missing child and a race riot in the making: at first glance Freedomland has all the ingredients of a taut, provocative melodrama. ... Full Article

Joe Roth directs his adaptation of Richard Price's novel Freedomland from a script by the author. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a police detective who must investigate a distraught woman (Julianne Moore) who claims that her child was kidnapped by... ... Full Article

"Hollywood never leads," she told Smith. "Hollywood always follows. You first start seeing things in movies that reflect what happens in our lives." Part of what made this project such a good experience for Moore was her excellent working relationship... ... Full Article

Freedomland is a dark, gritty police drama set in the projects in New Jersey. Samuel L. Jackson, the former bad ass from "Shaft" and "Star Wars", plays Lorenzo Council; a streetwise cop with a pulse on the projects. ... Full Article

The stars were on hand for the premiere of 'Freedomland' at the Loews Lincoln Square Theater in New York on February 13, 2006. A tale set on the same turf--Dempsey, New Jersey--as Clockers. ... Full Article

Filming has wrapped on Revolution Studios' Freedomland , a drama directed by Joe Roth and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore and Edie Falco, it was announced today. ... Full Article