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Freedomland Movie Story. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price. Detective Lorenzo Council Assigned to investigate the case of Brenda Martin's missing child is, a local son of the very housing project targeted as the crime scene. Under a white-hot media glare, Lorenzo launches asearch for the abducted boy, even as he thinks that Brenda Martin knows a lot more about her son's disappearance than she's admitting. Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter from the city's evening paper, almost immediately suspects Brenda of hiding something. she works her way into the mother's world, befriending her even as she looks for the chance to break the story of her career. As the search for the carjacker goes on, so does the simmering racial tension between Dempsey and its mostly white neighbor, Gannon. And when the Gannon police arrest a black man from Dempsey and declare him a suspect, the hostility between the two cities threatens to boil over into violence. With the media swarming and the mood turning ugly, Lorenzo must take desperate measures to get to the bottom of Brenda Martin's story. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Doug Aguirre and Ron Eldard. |