Freeway
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Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) is a fifteen year old, uneducated trailer trash girl, who can barely read. Her mother is a prostitute/crack whore and her step father is a drunk/crack addict who molests her. One day her mother is picked up by a cop and she’s arrested for prostitution and her step father is arrested for possession of crack. Vanessa knows she’s going to be sent to another foster home, so when her parole officer arrives she tricks her to go near the bed where she handcuffs her ankle to the bed. Vanessa grabs a basket full of clothes and a red jacket and jumps into her mom’s junk car and drives off. She rolls up to her boyfriend Chopper Wood (Bokeem Woodbine) and begs him to come with her to go find her grandmother in Stockton. He says he can’t because he’s got a court date to meet but he gives her his gun and wishes her well. She promises she’ll come back and they’ll get married but minutes after she leaves he’s killed by some Mexicans.

While driving down I-5, the car breaks down and a man stops to help her. He tells her the car’s had it and he offers her a ride…he’s going as far as L.A… Her ride, Bob Wolverton (Keifer Sutherland), is a child psychologist and he uses his mind games to make her open up and tell her all about her past. He takes good care of her but then tries to kill her before the night is over. He turns out to be the I-5 killer, that has been killing young girls along the interstate…but he chose the wrong girl to mess with. Vanessa retrieves the gun that Chopper gave her and shoots Bob multiple times in the head and back. She escapes but Bob survives (and is horribly disfigured) and turns the situation on her…saying a nice guy gave her a ride and she left him for dead while stealing his wallet. Of course, Bob, being a high pillar or society, (and the fact that Vanessa doesn’t seem to have any remorse) no one believes her and she is thrown in jail. Will Vanessa be able to prove her innocence and find her grandma? Who will believe a violent trailer girl over a contributing member of society anyway?

In this day and age, cops still hogtie people.
True love is giving the one you love a gun from Spain and a coke.

"Oh God. Dear God...that was so fucking bad...but I was at a loss and I left it up to you." ~Vanessa.

Hahaha! None!

This is a truly sick film. To enjoy this film…you have to be a sick individual, with a sick sense of humor. I, my friends, am just that. I honestly don’t see anyone really enjoying this film because the humor is so black and twisted…but something about this film makes it TOTALLY AWESOME!!! Hahaha. Reese Witherspoon (who is one of my favorite actresses btw) had the BEST one liners in every single scene and, let’s face it, Kiefer Sutherland…makes an excellent bad guy. In fact, every time I see that he’s in a movie, I assume he’s the bad guy…’cause he looks all nice and stuff but you know he’s not!!! This flick follows (very loosely) the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Even if you look at the names of the people you can tell what type of part they played in the story. Anyway, if you’ve ever had the urge to hear Reese Witherspoon talk with her natural accent and act like trailer trash (in a hilarious way) then pick up this film a.s.a.p. No matter what she’s doing she’s cuter than a button (even if she’s swearing like a sailor). For sure, if you like dark comedies with twisted humor, this is the movie for you. Look for cameos by Brittany Murphy and Brooke Shields. Haha! This movie rocks! Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Amused)

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