| Freedomland
Release Date: December 23, 2005 (NY, LA; wide release:
January 13, 2006)
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Director: Joe Roth
Screenwriter: Richard Price
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore,
Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Aunjanue
Ellis
Plot Summary: 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.
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