IONCINEMA.com presents: Freedomland (2006)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Joe Roth

Cast (alphabetical order):

Ron Eldard

Edie Falco

William Forsythe

Samuel L. Jackson

Anthony Mackie

Julianne Moore

Freedomland

Release Date: Feb 17, 2006 - Wide Release
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Film Genre: Drama
Country: United States

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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.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2005-02-23
Variety reports that Edie Falco will star in the project which begins shooting on the film March 31 in New York.

2004-11-12
Variety reports that Revolution Studios is in talks with Paramount to acquire Freedomland and have attached Joe Roth to direct. The movie will shoot in New York in late Spring. Revolution hopes to release it by the end of 2005.

2003-01-18
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Morgan Freeman will star opposite Julianne Moore and the project is aiming for a September start.