Liberty Stands Still

Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), the wife and business partner of wealthy weapons manufacturer Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt), is on her way to her regular assignation with her boyfriend, Russell (Martin Cummins), an actor who's about to go on-stage for the closing night of his hit play. Their ...more

Liberty Stands Still is a reasonably absorbing thriller, but it's also contrived and heavy-handed. The problems begin with the title. Liberty is the name of the endangered arms manufacturer played by Linda Fiorentino. This accounts for more than one obvious play on words about threats to Liberty, those who would abandon Liberty, etc. And the film's central conceit is that Liberty has come to represent something evil -- the prevalence of a dangerous gun culture in the U.S. and abroad. ...more