Freeway (1996)
Writer-director Matthew Bright’s very ’90s update on Little Red Riding Hood stars a very young Reese Witherspoon as Vanessa, an illiterate teenager living in Southern California with her sex worker mom (Amanda Plummer) and evil, predatory stepfather (Michael T. Weiss). Then things get worse.
When her mom is arrested, Vanessa tries to trek north to Grandma’s house, but she’s picked up by modern-day big bad wolf Bob Wolverton (Kiefer Sutherland.)
Everything about this movie feels wrong, and it’s intoxicating. We love all the acting — Witherspoon is spectacular — as well as the surprise appearances of stars like Brooke Shields and stars-to-be like Bokeem Woodbine and Brittany Murphy.
Best of all, we saw this for free, via the Kanopy app.
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