nothing of his crimes, are treated like heroes. Initially scared, Vanessa makes friends in prison that include heroin-addicted lesbian Rhonda and Mesquita, a brutal Hispanic gang leader. Vanessa plots to escape to her grandmother's house and fashions a shiv from a toothbrush, a skill she had learned from her stepfather. During their transport to a new maximum security prison, Vanessa and Mesquita escape after killing a security guard, and they go their separate ways. Re-examining evidence, the detectives realize Vanessa was telling the truth. They search Bob's home and find violent child pornography and human remains in a storage shed. Horrified, Mimi commits suicide. Evading the police at his home, Bob travels to Vanessa's grandmother's trailer, using the address written on a picture Vanessa had showed him. Posing as a prostitute, Vanessa steals a car from a prospective john, driving to the trailer. She finds Bob in bed wearing her grandmother's nightgown and nightcap with the covers pulled up to his nose. He reveals himself and Vanessa sees her grandmother's dead body on the floor. A struggle ensues, culminating in her strangling him. Breer and Wallace arrive, finding the bodies of Bob and Vanessa's grandmother. Outside, Vanessa sits in a chair in a daze, then asks the detectives if they have a cigarette. They all smile and laugh. Cast Kiefer Sutherland as Robert “Bob” Wolverton Reese Witherspoon as Vanessa Julia Lutz Wolfgang Bodison as Detective Mike Breer Dan Hedaya as Detective Garnet Wallace Amanda Plummer as Ramona Lutz Brooke Shields as Mimi Wolverton Michael T. Weiss as Larry Bokeem Woodbine as Chopper Wood Guillermo Díaz as Flacco Brittany Murphy as Rhonda Alanna Ubach as Mesquita Susan Barnes as Mrs. Cullins Conchata Ferrell as Mrs. Sheets Tara Subkoff as Sharon Julie Araskog as Prosecutor Lorna Raver as Judge Paul Perri as Cop #1 Release Freeway premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 1996 where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Censorship In Australia, when Columbia TriStar Home Video submitted a VHS of the original 104-minute print of the film to the Australian Classification Board (then known as the Office of Film and Literature Classification), it was refused classification. The ACB had already approved of a censored version, running 102 minutes, that removed two scenes: one in which Sutherland asks Witherspoon for anal sex on top of his excessive use of obscenities, and another in which a deceased