# The Film FREEWAY With Reese Witherspoon & Kiefer Sutherland **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677 "2007-01-12T06:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/21 "2007-04-13T02:34:31Z")
I picked it up in the bargain DVD bin at Walmart, knowing nothing about it really – just knowing that it sounded interesting and had Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon. I liked it a lot, too. A fun twisted Red Riding Hood motif. And Kiefer definitely does creepy quite well. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/22 "2007-04-13T15:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF] (BUMP) I saw this last night at a special screening at the Roxie (who was the original film distributor for the movie). When I got home, I immediately went to Netflix it, but it was already on my queue… most likely because of this thread. [/QUOTE] I’m fairly sure that I saw it at the Roxie as well, about 4 years ago, paired with **Ms. 45**. Nice double feature… Joe ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/23 "2007-04-13T16:09:08Z")
Fantastic movie.Reese is awesome in it. My favorite line: Reese: Get in the trunk The John:_whimpering_ Please…I get claustrophobic. Reese: Yeah…well, I get claustrophobic sucking strange dick. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/24 "2007-04-13T16:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner] No, the movie came out about the same time as her TV show started. She was already well known at the time. I don’t even think that it came out during a lull in her career. [/QUOTE] No, the film premiered at Sundance in January '96, while _Suddenly Susan_ didn’t premier until later that fall. I saw it when it first got a really limited release (who knows? maybe at the Roxie too!) and remember having a ball. I remembered Reese, of course, from _Man in the Moon_ but what a transformation! She needs to play more roles like that again. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/25 "2007-04-13T16:32:56Z")
I love this movie. Reese is one of my favorite actors and I think she’s terrific in this. Watched it again a couple of weeks ago with mr.stretch wandering in and out of the room: “What happend to Keifer–wasn’t he just giving the girl a ride?” “Why is she in jail if Keifer tried to molest her?” “How’d she get out of juvie?” “What happened to Keifer now?” “Is that Brooke Shields?” Honey, you have to watch the movie–its not one that you can track while you are wandering around the house! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/26 "2007-04-14T10:05:55Z")
ArchiveGuy writes: \> No, the film premiered at Sundance in January '96, while Suddenly Susan didn’t \> premier until later that fall. Yeah, but Hail Ants was claiming that Brooke Shields was almost unknown at the time. She wasn’t. This may have been just before her return to stardom, but she wasn’t remotely an unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/27 "2007-04-14T10:15:20Z")
It’s funny, smart, different and dark. The only thing I didn’t like was the ending. So she kills the guy, and then suddenly everything’s all right? She’s got a man locked in her trunk, people! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/28 "2007-04-14T19:05:03Z")
Saw this thread, and it reminded me of the great acting job Kiefer did in [The Vanishing](http://imdb.com/title/tt0108473/). I think he developed his Jack Bauer character by drawing on Wolverton and Harriman. Also, the chemistry and dynamic Kiefer had with Jeff Bridges in the Vanishing was great. I’d love to see them together in something, again. Their styles just coalesce and draw charge. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677/29 "2007-04-15T00:18:17Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] Saw this thread, and it reminded me of the great acting job Kiefer did in [The Vanishing](http://imdb.com/title/tt0108473/). I think he developed his Jack Bauer character by drawing on Wolverton and Harriman. . [/QUOTE] “Tell me you felt like a human urinal, or millions will die!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-film-freeway-with-reese-witherspoon-kiefer-sutherland/387677.md?page=1)