Freedom (1982 film)
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Director Scott Hicks Screenplay Josephine Emery Duration Country Australia | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Producer Matt Carroll Writer Josephine Emery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1 April 1982 Cast (Ron), (Annie), (Cassidy), Greg Rowe (Bowser Boy), (Phil)Similar movies Related Scott Hicks movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freedom 1982 trailer
Freedom is a 1982 film directed by Scott Hicks, starring Jon Blake and Jad Capelja.
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The movie was shot in May to June 1981 in the Adelaide area. Finance was provided by the South Australian Film Corporation, which additional investment from Filmco.
Scott Hick later described making the film as:
A very mixed experience. On the one hand, it was heady and exciting and intoxicating to be making your first feature film but, on the other, there were difficulties in the way the production was organised. The writer, John Emery, and I were kept separate from each other. In retrospect this was a huge blunder because the film was never totally focused in its vision, and I think that's reflected a little in the sort of schizophrenic nature of the film.
Reception
Freedom was unsuccessful at the Australian box office and failed to generate attention internationally, aside from a run at the D.W. Griffith theatre in New York City on 14th February 1985. Domestically, the film grossed $157,000 in 1982, equivalent to $456,870 in 2009 dollars.
Critical reviews were mixed to negative. Susie Eisenhuth, writing for The Sun Herald, compared the film to Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), another love on the run film. She wrote that Freedom spends "too much time on cars" and too little time on its characters. Neil Jillett in The Age wrote one of the few positive reviews, stating that the film is about "the fantasies and fears of the young and unemployed", and called it "whimsical and intriguing".
Home media
Freedom was released on VHS in the mid 1980s by Rigby Entertainment and was classified M15+. It was released on DVD in the 2000s by Umbrella Entertainment, but has since gone out of print. In the US, it was released on VHS by VidAmerica.
References
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