91-year-old grandmother is shown with a vase covering her private parts and her legs spread apart; the cut version remains available on video in that country, where it is rated R18+. Critical reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 43 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "A modern update on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway is an audacious black comedy with a star-making performance from the young Reese Witherspoon." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film had a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Critics lauded the film's hard-edged satire and performances. Film critic Roger Ebert gave Freeway three and a half stars out of four and stated, "like it or hate it (or both), you have to admire its skill, and the over-the-top virtuosity of Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland." It received "Two Thumbs Up" on Siskel and Ebert At the Movies. Joe Baltake of The Sacramento Bee gave Freeway four stars out of four and called it "a wild, audacious drive-in attraction that takes the 'high' from 'highbrow' and the 'low' from 'lowdown' and shakes them up". Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave Freeway four stars out of four and said that it was "rude in the way the truth is rude—only funnier". Margaret A. McGurk wrote for The Cincinnati Enquirer that "I didn't particularly want to like Freeway, but I couldn't help myself. Reese Witherspoon made me." Sequel A sequel titled Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby was released in 1999, but was largely disregarded and released direct-to-video. References External links Freeway on Tubi Refused Classification Censorship details of Freeway. 1996 films 1996 comedy-drama films 1996 crime drama films 1996 crime thriller films 1996 directorial debut films 1996 independent films 1996 LGBT-related films 1990s black comedy films 1990s comedy thriller films 1990s crime comedy-drama films 1990s exploitation films 1990s prison films 1990s road comedy-drama films 1990s serial killer films American black comedy films American comedy thriller films American crime comedy-drama films American crime thriller films American exploitation films American independent films American LGBT-related films American prison films American road comedy-drama films American serial killer films Films based on Little Red Riding Hood Films directed by Matthew Bright Films produced by Oliver Stone Films scored by Danny Elfman