Freeway is a 1996 crime film written and directed by Matthew Bright, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields. The plot of this film resembles the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. Despite being a commercial failure and having censorship problems due to graphic language and violent content, it received mostly positive reviews from critics and has developed a cult following.
Vanessa Lutz (Witherspoon) is a poor, illiterate teenage girl living south of Los Angeles. Her mother, Ramona (Amanda Plummer), is arrested in a prostitution sting and her stepfather, Larry (Michael T. Weiss), is taken into custody on drug and child abuse charges. Social worker Mrs. Sheets (Conchata Ferrell) comes to take Vanessa away, but Vanessa handcuffs her ankle to a bed and runs away. She takes her parents run-down car and plans to go to her grandmother in Stockton. Along the way, Vanessa stops to see her boyfriend and classmate Chopper Wood (Bokeem Woodbine), a local gang member, to tell him about her excursion and he gives her a gun to sell upon arriving at her destination. Minutes after Vanessa leaves, Chopper is killed in a drive-by shooting by rival gang members. A little later, Bob Wolverton (Sutherland), a counselor at a school for boys with emotional trouble, picks her up after her car breaks down and offers to take her as far as Los Angeles where he is headed.
Out on the freeway
I saw you wasted
Nobody wants you to fall
Except for me
(Dental plan, marriages, lots of babies, dentogen)
Except for me
(Press hot sex, fuck more and love less)
Call me up daily
Just to remind me
Nobody wants you at all
Except for me
(Charity, charity, everybody look at me)
Except for me
(Wanna be so alike, I'm finishing finishing finishing
finishing)
You're so important that you stay untouched
You start to cry and when we go Pink Dutch
You've always wondered why I don't say much
Well let's see, how well you walk without a crutch
(One two, one, two, one two three four)
I really hate you
Still trying to shake you
Nobody's going to call
Except for me
(No, it's not logical, it's biological)
Except for me
(And if you're willing, it's us I'm killing)
Got a new girlfriend
Is she a godsend
Or is she just methadone?
I'll wait and see
(They say it's darkest just before the crowded light)
If I stay clean
(You gotta fuck somebody over 'fore you get it right)
You're seeing someone now for what that's worth
He's got your love and so they'll have your curse
Freeway of love in a check black hearse
And I really can not think of what that's worth
And I really can not think of what would be worse
Can I think of one more verse....