Freedomland is a 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. Richard Price adapted his own novel, which touches on themes of covert racism. Joe Roth directs the film.
The movie opens with Brenda (Julianne Moore) wandering through the Projects at night. She eventually comes to a hospital, goes into the emergency room and reveals her hands, which are cut and covered in blood.
The movie cuts to Lorenzo (Samuel L. Jackson), a police offi...
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Freedomland is a 2006 film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore. Richard Price adapted his own novel, which touches on themes of covert racism. Joe Roth directs the film.
The movie opens with Brenda (Julianne Moore) wandering through the Projects at night. She eventually comes to a hospital, goes into the emergency room and reveals her hands, which are cut and covered in blood.
The movie cuts to Lorenzo (Samuel L. Jackson), a police officer, and his partner, who are trying to pick up a criminal on a warrant from the next town. He gets a call about seeing Brenda to take a report on her stolen car, and he heads for the hospital.
Brenda is shell-shocked but after a few minutes, she reveals to Lorenzo that Cody, her four-year-old son, was in the back seat of her car when it was stolen. Lorenzo reacts to this with an asthma attack, and one of the hospital's doctors gives him a shot of adrenaline. It is also revealed that Brenda's brother is a police officer in the next,...
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