1. Freeheld movie review & film summary (2015) - Roger Ebert
Oct 1, 2015 · In 2005, when “Freeheld” takes place, New Jersey law allowed people in domestic partnerships to pass on their pensions to their significant ...
Freeheld stumbles over too many hurdles to recommend it. The film’s heart is in the right place, but its focus is not.
2. Freeheld (2015) | Rotten Tomatoes
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, decorated New Jersey detective Laurel Hester wishes to leave her pension benefits to domestic partner Stacie Andree.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, decorated New Jersey detective Laurel Hester wishes to leave her pension benefits to domestic partner Stacie Andree. Denied by local county officials, Laurel receives help from hard-nosed colleague Dane Wells and activist Steven Goldstein, who unite to rally fellow police officers and ordinary citizens to support the couple's fight for equality.
3. Toronto Film Review: 'Freeheld' - Variety
Sep 14, 2015 · Movingly understated performances by Julianne Moore and Ellen Page distinguish this oppressively worthy and self-satisfied gay-rights drama.
It may be a sign of the sweeping changes that have occurred in the gay-rights arena that “Freeheld” — a fact-based drama about two women who fought for due recognition of their domestic partnership in the mid-2000s — at times plays like a period piece, populated by cardboard bigots, flamboyant gay crusaders and other hoary relics of a less enlightened past.
4. Freeheld - SJ Magazine
Actress Julianne Moore tells a moving South Jersey story in her latest movie, "Freeheld," released last month. Visit sjmagazine.net to read more.
5. Freeheld - Movie Review - DC Filmdom
Oct 8, 2015 · The story of Ocean County detective Laurel Hester is easily found on the internet and in newspaper clippings. A 23-year-veteran of the local ...
"Freeheld" and "Philadelphia" may have come from the same writer, but more than enough factors set each apart from the other.
6. The Long Journey To "Freeheld" - BuzzFeed
Oct 3, 2015 · It took seven years to bring Freeheld — the true story of an embattled lesbian couple in New Jersey — to the screen.
It took seven years to bring Freeheld — the true story of an embattled lesbian couple in New Jersey — to the screen. Ellen Page, Julianne Moore, director Peter Sollett, and the film's other key players tell BuzzFeed News how it finally happened.
7. Freeheld (2015) - Financial Information - The Numbers
The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and ...
Financial analysis of Freeheld (2015) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
8. Freeheld (2015) directed by Peter Sollett • Reviews, film + cast
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was ...
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
9. Freeheld Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Feb 21, 2024 · Parents need to know that Freeheld is based on the real-life relationship between New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) ...
Compassionate drama about equality has intense themes. Read Common Sense Media's Freeheld review, age rating, and parents guide.
10. FREEHELD – Film Review - ZekeFilm
Oct 16, 2015 · Freeheld tells the story of policewoman Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore-Still Alice) who discovers she is dying of cancer and who wants her ...
Director: PETER SOLLETT/2015 For Ellen Page, this film was a personal project that she has been championing for some time, long before her publicly coming out herself as a gay actress while promoting X-Men: Days of Future Passed. Adapted from the Academy Award-winning documentary film, also called Freeheld, writer Ron Nyswaner finds a compelling story that is not unlike his most well-known writing effort, the Tom Hanks starring film, Philadelphia, from 1993.
11. Freeheld, starring Ellen Page and Julianne Moore, reviewed.
Oct 2, 2015 · If Freeheld is starting to sound like an action movie, rest assured that all this bad-guy-chasing and gun-pulling is just set-up. After the ...
When the documentary Freeheld won the Oscar for best documentary short in 2008, the powerful story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree—a lesbian couple...
12. Freeheld - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
Oct 16, 2015 · There's no life or reality to these characters. And there's no accounting for the vagaries of history. Freeheld is a product of an era in which ...
Julianne Moore and Ellen Page are adrift in this gay-rights drama
