Freeheld

2015
PG-13
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Julianne Moore and Elliot Page in Freeheld (2015)

A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells, and activist Steven Goldstein, unite in Laurel and StacieÂ’s defense, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.

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Legal Drama Biography Drama Romance

New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

13K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations total

Videos22

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Equality

Clip 0:47

Can I Have Your Number

Clip 2:15

Freeheld: Roommates (French Subtitled)

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Freeheld: Equality (French Subtitled)

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Freeheld: Can I Have Your Number?

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Trivia
The real Stacie Andree, Dane Wells and Steven Goldstein can be seen as extras in the film. Stacie can be seen wearing a black cardigan behind Elliot Page (who portrays her) in the third Freeholder meeting, sitting in the right aisle seat of the second row. Dane portrays the police officer, between two taller officers, who is handed a box of ashes. Steven can be seen in the second Freeholder meeting, seated behind Steve Carell (who portrays him), holding a red sign and seated in the aisle seat of the right side second row (the same seat that the real Stacie Andree can be seen in, later in the film).

Goofs
Laurel and Stacie first encounter each other at a volleyball game with each playing on opposite teams. Stacie serves to Laurel, whereupon Laurel's team successfully returns the ball and the game is over. However, in volleyball, only the side that is serving can score a point and they must also win by two. For the game to be over, Laurel's side would need to get the ball back to serve the winning point. The director may have decided to skip that in order to keep the story moving.

Quotes
[From Trailer]
[about Laurel's appeal being turned down]
Steven Goldstein: This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Their next meeting we show up with 100 protesters.
Dane Wells: Radicals and strangers from New York aren't going to convince these guys.
Steven Goldstein: I am not a radical. I am a middle-class, Jewish homosexual from New Jersey. How about you, sweetheart?
Dane Wells: I'm a straight, white, ex-Protestant, atheist cop. You okay with that, *sweetheart*?
Steven Goldstein: I am. That is very hot.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Julianne Moore/Mark-Paul Gosselaar/DNCE (2015)

Soundtracks
Change of Season
Written and Performed by Lindon Puffin
Courtesy of Lindon Puffin
By arrangement with Sugaroo!

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Great acting by Julianne Moore in a kinda averagely told story

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Freeheld" (2015) is a movie based on a very real story. I won't go into plot details, but this is kinda inspirational story. The lead performance by Julianne Moore is great - you won't expect anything less from this caliber Oscar winner, and she delivers it. Movie itself isn't bad by any means, at running time 1 h 40 min it wasn't boring and i watched it in one sit, and that is not a bad sign. But movie-making wasn't original or exciting and etc. This is a very averagely told story, with any emotional deep (script lacks of it) or anything else for what i could remember this movie for longer then one day after i finished it.

Overall, "Freeheld" is very watchable movie with no lasting impression. There are many well known faces in this movie, but they don't have much to do, script is very flat and predictable, directing is very simple. This is OK movie for one evening.