Freeway (1996)

Directed by Matthew Bright

Writer:

Matthew Bright

Stars:Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland and Bokeem Woodbine


Genre: satirical, darkly comic thriller





Plot:
Vanessa Lutz is a poor, illiterate teenage girl living in the slums of Los Angeles. After her mother, Ramona, is arrested in a prostitution sting, she runs away with a stolen car from her social worker guardian to stay with her grandmother in Stockton. Along the way, Vanessa stops to see her boyfriend and classmate Chopper Wood, a local gang member to tell him about her excursion and he gives her a gun for protection. Minutes after Vanessa leaves Chopper, he is killed in a drive-by shooting by rival gang members. A little later, Bob Wolverton, a serial killer and rapist known as "the I-5 killer", picks her up after her car breaks down, and promises to take her to her grandmother's house. Freeway (Widescreen Edition)