Freedomland
Non-Series
Richard Price
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0767900243
Published: May 1998
Synopsis: A white woman, her hands gashed and
bloody, stumbles into an inner-city emergency room and announces that
she has just been carjacked by a black man. But then comes the
horrifying twist: Her young son was asleep in the back seat, and he has
now disappeared into the night.
Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is
detective Lorenzo Council, a local son of the very housing project
targeted as the scene of the crime. Under a white-hot media glare,
Lorenzo launches an all-out search for the abducted boy, even as he
quietly explores a different possibility: Does Brenda Martin know a lot
more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting?
Right behind Lorenzo is Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from
the city's evening paper. Almost immediately, Jesse suspects Brenda of
hiding something. Relentlessly, she works her way into the distraught
mother's fragile world, befriending her even as she looks for the
chance to break the biggest story of her career. As the search for the
alleged carjacker intensifies, so does the simmering racial tension
between Dempsy and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon.
Freedomland
Joe Roth, Director
Samuel L. Jackson: Lorenzo Council
Julianne Moore: Brenda Martin
Edie Falco: Karen Collucci
Ron Eldard: Danny Martin
William Forsythe: Boyle
Aunjanue Ellis: Felicia
Anthony Mackie: Billy Williams
Source: Sony Pictures
Original Release: 02/17/2006
DVD Release: 05/30/2006
Rating: R
Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
Presentation: Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Language: English, Français
Subtitles: English, Français
Time: 1:53:00
Features: Closed Caption.
