A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 3 nominations
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
- Felicia
- (as Aunjanue Ellis)
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- TriviaMichael Winterbottom was the original Director, and did extensive work before leaving this project.
- GoofsThe scenes at the Freedomland facility appear to be in late fall/winter - trees are bare, subjects are wearing heavy clothing. When Lorenzo interviews Brenda, he states on the tape recorder the date of the interview is May.
- Quotes
Lorenzo Council: Kiss my ass, brotherfucker.
Featured review
Most stereotyped film ever
wait, it looks quite real to me.
First mistake of this film was marketing (after all, it's all about marketing) Billing it as a thriller/action movie with some paranormal slant was wrong. This is strictly a psychological drama with zero paranormal stuff in it.
Second mistake was to make reality too real and not idealized or artistic to stay away of the touchy issues addressed: Race, police prejudice, social differences.
So if you went to the movie theater or the rental place to watch a thrilling action film staying right on the surface of entertainment and shock value, you will be disappointed. This is a nicely acted, well constructed and most importantly, realistic drama in which a white woman blames the kidnap of her son as a carjack conducted by an African-American male.
As far as I am concern, there was no stereotyping, just realism. There was no siding on the moralistic virtues of one or other side. Actually, this is a quite profound exploration of the reasons to lie, the be racist, to fear prejudice and to resist the fact that a social interaction between poor and rich, white and black, civilian and policemen will probably be fair in a near future not now.
My only concern was to see Ms. Moore so stressed during 90% of the film, quite impressive performance. Just hope she doesn't take this as her type-cast.
Second mistake was to make reality too real and not idealized or artistic to stay away of the touchy issues addressed: Race, police prejudice, social differences.
So if you went to the movie theater or the rental place to watch a thrilling action film staying right on the surface of entertainment and shock value, you will be disappointed. This is a nicely acted, well constructed and most importantly, realistic drama in which a white woman blames the kidnap of her son as a carjack conducted by an African-American male.
As far as I am concern, there was no stereotyping, just realism. There was no siding on the moralistic virtues of one or other side. Actually, this is a quite profound exploration of the reasons to lie, the be racist, to fear prejudice and to resist the fact that a social interaction between poor and rich, white and black, civilian and policemen will probably be fair in a near future not now.
My only concern was to see Ms. Moore so stressed during 90% of the film, quite impressive performance. Just hope she doesn't take this as her type-cast.
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- Jul 30, 2006
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- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Vùng Đất Tự Do
- Filming locations
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- Budget
- $37,665,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,512,886
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,833,562
- Feb 19, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $14,655,628
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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