Posted on 02/17/2006 9:32:16 AM PST by Termite_Commander
(Entertainment Weekly) -- "Freedomland," a dying-to-be-cathartic drama of American racial turmoil, lets us know from the outset that we're in for a heady dose of social studies.
An adaptation of Richard Price's 1998 novel (Price wrote the script himself), directed by the earnest rather than inspired Joe Roth, it's set in and around a New Jersey public housing project, and it starts by hitting us with bulletins from a war zone: a candlelight vigil for missing children, Julianne Moore slamming into the emergency room with blood -- literally -- on her hands....
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
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