Freeway (DVD, 2007)

Matthew Bright's (director & screenplay co-writer) twist on a contemporary "Little Red Riding Hood," is a crime drama & thriller with a surprisingly effective cast. It's been on TV; but, there are so many 'hidden-in-plain-sight' details to revisit, the DVD is worth owning.

The plot goes like this: After her cracked-addicted, prostituting mother, Ramona Lutz (Amanda Plummer) & teen-molesting step-dad (who?) are arrested, 15yo Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) decides, instead of being placed in a foster home (again), she's going to drive (under age) to find & live with the grandma (Kitty Fox) she's never met. As the "Red Riding Hood" fairy tale reads, "on the way to grandma's house..." the car Vanessa's driving breaks down. Bob Wolverton (Kieffer Sutherland), a counselor at a school for troubled boys, kindly stops & gives her a lift. Mr. Wolverton is slick & quick to win Vanessa's trust. During their talks in his pick-up truck, the experienced child counselor encourages the teenager to confide in him the details of being molested by her step-father.

Vanessa's not the easy mark Wolverton takes her for. She realizes that he's
'excited' by her descriptions of being molested ("being used as a human urinal"). It's at that moment when the keen teen recognizes Wolverton as the fugitive "I-5 Killer," she's seen in news broadcasts. When Vanessa attempts to flee from Wolverton's truck, she can't because there's no inside passenger door handle!

I won't spoil the rest of the movie, except to say Wolverton's more evil than the 'big bad wolf', making himself out to be a victim of the clever 'red riding hood'.

This twisted tale's got a well earned R rating for brutal violence, sex scenes & talk, depicted illegal drug abuse & lots of blatantly obscene language. (That's why it's the adults-only version of the 'red riding hood' fairy tale).
The full version is 110 mins/cut version is 102 mins.
It's in (graphic!) English.
In color (DeLuxe).
Aspect ratio is 1.85x1
The sound is Dolby.
It was filmed in Encino, Pt. Fermin, San Pedro & Twin Towers Correctional Facility, Los Angeles, California, USA.

There's really only one clean enough (not trailer-trash mouthed) for eBay line from flick I can leave you with that gives you an idea about our 'red riding hood':

Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon): You shoulda let me out of the car when I asked you to, Bob. You see what happens when ya got bad manners?

Now it's up to you to see what 'Vanessa riding hood' does, "when ya got bad manners" . . . ~