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Title: A Waste of Talent
Review: Julianne Moore and Samuel L. Jackson deserve to be in a much better movie than Freedomland, a ridiculous film about what happens when Brenda, a poor white woman, says her car has been hijacked. After giving testimony to several cops, she adds that, oh, by the way, her four-year-old son is in the car. Even though it's obvious to the detective, the viewer, and anybody with an IQ higher than George W. Bush that Brenda is lying, the cops decide to completely shut down the black project where they think the child, and his kidnapper, are. Accusations of racism and riots ensue, not a moment of which is believable. Edie Falco gives a very moving performance as a mother who's lost a child herself, despite the fact that most of the lines she has to deliver are absurd. Why all these talented people decided to make this ridiculous movie is a mystery to me.
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