Freeway

In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the uneducated daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute flees the foster-care system in search of her long-lost grandmother but meets up instead with a serial killer. Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate ...more

Although it's framed as a contemporary retelling of -Little Red Riding Hood -- replete with a trip to grandma's house, a villain named Wolverton, and an opening-credit montage of fairy tale drawings -- Freeway is actually a smart, trashy, and hilarious pastiche of the road movie, the women-in-prison flick, and The Jerry Springer Show. The directorial debut of Shrunken Heads and Guncrazy scribe Matthew Bright, the film piles up all manner of B-movie subject matter and then unleashes a future ...more