Where to Watch Freedomland (2006) in the US

What it's about

Late one evening, Brenda Martin, a thirty-seven year old Caucasian woman from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, enters Dempsy Medical Center in Dempsy, New Jersey with minor injuries, but she is also emotionally distraught. One of the people to who she tells her story is Dempsy Police Detective Lorenzo Council, a black man. That story is that she was just carjacked by another unknown black man when she took a shortcut that she had never traveled between the Armstrong housing projects, where she works at the Rainbow Club, a children's center, and her home in Gannon, New Jersey. Her emotional distress is because her four year old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the car and is thus now in the hands of the carjacker. Brenda's brother, Danny Martin, a police detective in Gannon, cannot help but get directly involved in the investigation despite he operating outside his jurisdiction. His actions do not sit well with Council, who he insinuates is not only not doing his job, but is protecting his own "people", i.e. the primarily black populace in the Armstrong housing projects. In addition, the residents of the projects feel that Brenda is getting special treatment as a white woman, as several children have gone missing from the projects without such a frenzied police intervention, which is unnecessarily and unfairly disrupting their lives. Karen Collucci with Friends of Kent, a volunteer organization that conducts searches for missing children, also offers their services, which Council eventually accepts with the caveat that they work under his directive. "Kent" was Collucci's own son never found, his disappearance which destroyed her personal life. Through the process, Council can't help but think that Brenda isn't telling them the entire story...

Cast and crew

Director

Joe Roth

Writer

Richard Price

Starring

Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco

Details

Release date

Feb 17, 2006

Language

English, Italian

Country

United States

Box office

$12,512,886

Awards

2 wins & 3 nominations

Where to Watch Freedomland (2006) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Freedomland in the United States?

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Can I stream Freedomland or do I have to rent it in the United States?

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Can I watch Freedomland for free in the United States?

Watch the movie free with ads on Tubi TV and YouTube (HD). Watch the movie free with a participating library card on hoopla and Kanopy (HD).