Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby [Blu-ray]

Director: Matthew Bright Matthew Bright

Overview

Despite the efforts of her sleazy attorney, Mr. Butz (David Alan Grier), teen drug dealer/car thief Crystal (Natasha Lyonne) is sentenced to a 25-year prison term, the first segment of which will be served in a youth correctional facility where she will be treated for her rampant bulimia. There, in-between binge/purge marathons with her fellow eating-disordered inmates and relentless harassment of the hapless authorities, she fends off the lesbian advances of her psychotic cellmate, Cyclona (Maria Celedonio), a serial killer who's just received a life sentence. The two escape together and embark on a cross-country road trip in search of Sister Gomez (Vincent Gallo), the beneficent nun who protected Cyclona from the sexual predations of her family during her troubled childhood south of the border. Where writer/director Matthew Bright's original Freeway was a modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway 2 riffs on Hansel and Gretel; it borrows only the trailer-park trappings of the earlier film, making the titular allusion to automobiles somewhat tenuous.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/17/2020
UPC:	0738956940216
Original Release:	1999
Rating:	R
Source:	Dark Force Ent
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Natasha Lyonne	White Girl
Maria Celedonio	Cyclona,Actor
Vincent Gallo	Sister Gomez
David Alan Grier	Mr. Butz
April Telek	Mrs. Wilson
Bob Dawson	Actor
Jenn Griffin	Actor,Detective Dollar
Max Perlich	Flacco
John Landis	Judge
Michael T. Weiss	Drifter
Jo Bates	Actor,Female Jailer
Richard Henders	American Trick
Alfonso Quijada	Federale
Kendall Saunders	Bianca
Parker Smith	Mousy Nicole
Amber Warnat	2nd White Girl
Abel Urbina	Mexican Trick
Cheralynn Bailey	Amputee Sex Brat
Marc Baur	TV Cop
Pat Waldron	Grandma
Thomas Heaton	Grandpa
Kevin Leslie	Junior
Paul Bittante	INS Agent #1
José Vargas	Mexican Detainee
Julia Ocenas	Corky
Catlin Anderson	Vic, Goody Two Shoes Nazi
Alieka Perreault	Courthouse Whore
Freda Perry	Mrs. Wilson's Asst.
Kennard Ramsey	Composer

Technical Credits

Matthew Bright

Matthew Bright	Director,Screenwriter
Brad Wyman	Producer
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Anne McCarthy	Casting
George Josef	Stunts
Chris Hanley	Producer
Donald Kushner	Executive Producer
Peter Locke	Executive Producer
Samuel Hadida	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Charles Band	Executive Producer
Rory Cutler	Special Effects
Gordon Alan Campbell	Key Grip
Eric Batut	Sound/Sound Designer
Adam Blantz	Sound Mixer
Markus Innocenti	Sound Editor
Natasha Lyonne	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Here are some of the people likely to be offended by Freeway 2: Confessions of Trickbaby if they take this flick even a tad too seriously: lawyers, African-Americans, correctional officers, people with eating disorders, wheelchair users, lesbians, Latinos, amputees, poor white people, the elderly, Catholics, transsexuals, the entire population of Tijuana, and anyone who is disturbed by necrophilia, incest, pedophilia, vomit, prostitution, drug use, compulsive masturbation, multiple homicide, Vincent Gallo's acting career, or gigantic prosthetic genitalia. In fact, this update of the reform-school girl genre takes exploitation to such absurd extremes that it can only be viewed as an over-the-top comedy, one that rekindles the spirit of John Waters a mere two decades after Hollywood de-clawed him. Natasha Lyonne, in a series of frocks and fright wigs that would make a New York drag queen flee in terror, brings the same blasé naturalism to the role of trash-talking, trick-whipping, vomit-obsessed Crystal, aka "White Girl," that she did to her likable young characters in films such as Slums of Beverly Hills. Maria Celedonio, meanwhile, turns Cyclona into the apotheosis of art-directed teen depravity. With her washboard abs, cute outfits, and homicidal tics, she comes off like a butch refugee from pop trio TLC gone way over the edge. Leaving no sacred cow unmunched (or unregurgitated), Freeway 2 emerges as a grotesque parody/celebration of the overmedicated, parent-blaming, morally relativistic cultural implosion that Jerry Springer and his ilk first foisted upon our popular culture. Most will abhor it, a few will worship it, and it will doubtless have a long shelf life in the cult sections of independent video emporiums.