Freeway
A bizarrely inventive black comedy that devolves into a twisted riff on Little Red Riding Hood, Matthew Bright’s Freeway delights in keeping its audience off balance. The terrific Reese Witherspoon plays a plucky teen on the run from the terrifying Big Bad Wolf played by Kiefer Sutherland. This 1996 sleeper was produced by Oliver Stone. Bright returned with a sequel in 1999, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby.
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About Josh Olson
Josh Olson was the only student in his second grade class to see The House That Dripped Blood. Many years later, he wrote and directed the no-budget horror film, Infested, a brutal assault on The Big Chill, with zombies. He went on to write the screenplay for A History Of Violence and was nominated for the WGA, BAFTA and Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. He kept losing to Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, but that’s okay.
He has written features and TV shows with Harlan Ellison, Walter Hill, Slash, Willie Nelson, and Mick Jagger. His Village Voice essay “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script” became an internet phenomenon, getting upwards of five million hits.
The ten-part audio drama Bronzeville which he wrote, starring Laurence Fishburne, Larenz Tate, Tracee Ellis Ross, Omari Harwicke and Tika Sumpter was a popular and critical hit, and is currently being developed for TV. He and John Brancato (The Game) recently wrote and sold the feature spec Trigger Warning, which is being produced by Thunder Road.
Josh is the host of Trailers From Hell's official podcast, The Movies That Made Me, available everywhere podcasts are streamed and downloaded!
I learned of Reese Witherspoon from that movie, although I later realized that I’d seen her in A Far Off Place.