Freeway courtesy Republic Pictures
DVD Tuesday Before she was Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon she was a modern-day Red Riding Hood in FreewayOnce upon a time there was an underaged trailer-trash chippie named Vanessa Lutz Witherspoon who hit the road when her mom and stepdad get arrested hoping to crash with her grandma until social services forgets about trying to get her into the system But there are big bad wolves prowling the freeway like serial killer Bob Wolverton Kiefer Sutherland looking suitably lupine Little lost girls bewareWriter-director Matthew Brights modern-day fairy tale Freeway is a blast and Witherspoon is flawless casting as Vanessa Shes so tiny she looks convincingly vulnerable but that little bulldog jaw tells you that shes tougher than she looks and is she ever Bright clearly saw the same steely determination that served Witherspoon so well in the role of Elections 1999 high-school overachiever Tracy Flick but he saw it sooner And I have to say the twists and turns
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