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Freeway is a 1996 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. It was directed by Matthew Bright.

The movie is a dark comedy loosely modeled after the story of Little Red Riding Hood; Witherspoon is Red Riding Hood, while Sutherland plays the Big Bad Wolf.

Plot summary

Bob Wolverton, a serial killer ("the I-5 killer") and rapist, picks up Vanessa Lutz, an illiterate teenage runaway after her car breaks down and promises to take her to her grandmother's house. After manipulating Vanessa into confessing to him the details of her painfully dysfunctional life, including a prostitute mother and a sexually abusive stepfather, Bob reveals his true colors and tries to kill her. The tables are turned, however, as Vanessa eventually shoots him several times and escapes. Vanessa is quickly arrested and questioned by two detectives who write her off as a carjacker, even though she insists Bob had tried to kill her and had told her about his other murders. Bob survives, but the bullet wounds have left him severely handicapped, costing him an eye and twisting the right side of his face, and Vanessa is put on trial, with everyone believing (at first) that Bob is the innocent victim he claims to be. Vanessa goes to prison, while Bob and his socialite wife, who knows nothing of his crimes, are treated like heroes.

Scared at first, Vanessa eventually makes friends in prison, including a heroin-addicted lesbian and a Hispanic gang leader, who helps her escape.

Meanwhile, the detectives look back over the evidence and find that she was telling the truth. They search his house, finding violent pornography and human remains in his garage. Confronted at last with what her husband really is, Wolverton's wife commits suicide. Arriving home to find a police car at his house, Wolverton panics and flees to Vanessa's grandmother's house.

Posing as a prostitute, Vanessa steals a car and drives there as well. She finds her grandmother dead and Wolverton waiting for her with a gun. After a struggle, Vanessa kills him just in time for the detectives to arrive.

Tagline: Her life is no fairytale.

Cast

Kiefer Sutherland
– Bob Wolverton
Reese Witherspoon
– Vanessa Lutz
Wolfgang Bodison – Detective Mike Breer
Dan Hedaya
– Detective Garnet Wallace
Amanda Plummer
– Ramona Lutz
Brooke Shields
– Mimi Wolverton
Michael T. Weiss
– Larry
Bokeem Woodbine
– Chopper Wood
Guillermo Díaz – Flacco
Brittany Murphy
– Rhonda
Alanna Ubach
– Mesquita
Susan Barnes – Mrs. Cullins
Conchata Ferrell
– Mrs. Sheets
Tara Subkoff
– Sharon
Julie Araskog – Prosecutor

Trivia

The scenes that take place on the northbound I-5 freeway actually were filmed on the I-5.

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