Revolution Studios' powerful drama Freedomland is a highly charged and gritty mystery of a carjacking, a missing child and a neighborhood torn asunder, based on the best-selling novel by Richard Price.
Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center.
After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) — a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during the interrogation Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car.
Led by activist Karen Collucci (Edie Falco), members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Revolution Studios Presents A Scott Rudin Production Freedomland starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis and Anthony Mackie, a Columbia Pictures release. The director is Joe Roth. The screenplay is by Richard Price, based upon his novel. The film is produced by Scott Rudin. Charles Newirth is the executive producer. The director of photography is Anastas Michos, ASC (Man on the Moon, The Forgotten). The production designer is David Wasco (Collateral, Pulp Fiction). The film is edited by Nick Moore (The Full Monty). The costumes designer is Ann Roth (Cold Mountain, The Hours). The casting is by Margery Simkin. The original score was composed by six-time Academy Award® nominee James Newton Howard (Batman Begins, The Sixth Sense).
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Clarke Peters, Peter Friedman, Domenick Lombardozzi, Aasif Mandvi, Philip Bosco, Fly Williams III