Before coming out to the public in Pleasantville and continuing his upward trajectory with sexual intent, the comedy “Blonde’s Revenge” or his Oscar-winning performance three years later in the solid Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line. Reese Witherspoon actually already graced the screen in a film that is still banned for the age of 16, which was released in 1997: Freeway.
the pitch With a mother who prostitutes herself to pay for her crack and a stepfather who enjoys touching her, Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) is far from a princess. After the arrest of her parents, and in order not to return to the host family, she decides to go like Little Red Riding Hood and join her grandmother living in a caravan several hundred kilometers away. Along the way, he meets Bob Woolverton, a child psychologist… but especially the big bad wolf of the night, a serial killer, necrophiliac and pedophile. That is, inheritance…
Signed by Matthew Bright, who has since largely returned to almost complete anonymity, freeway, a colossal flop at the box office, deserves a serious reevaluation. First of all, because Reese Witherspoon is excellent there, bursting into the guise of Vanessa Lutz, who proves herself to be fearless, cunning and an absolute mistress of fate, albeit in a bad way.
And then obviously for Kiefer Sutherland, who here delivers a delicious composition as a psychopathic wolf disguised as a lamb to better attract his prey. If the big bad wolf has big teeth in the fairy tale tradition, Vanessa Lutz takes care of cutting his fangs…
A no-nonsense and enjoyable read of the famous tale, with all sorts of unstoppable things to discover, especially if we add the unanimous cast of Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), Brooke Shields, the late Brittany Murphy, the eternal second-in-command of US cinema. Dan Hedaya, or even Michael T. Weiss, who came to make this film between two seasons of his TV series Le Chaméléon.
freeway Available on VOD as well as DVD. Unfortunately, as far as we know, it hasn’t been released on Blu-ray in our region yet. It should be noted here that the director will commit a false sequel, which will be released two years later live on video With us, what is primarily a retelling of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel.
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