Freeheld
Freeheld is the true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, a lesbian police detective and her domestic partner, and their fight for justice to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
4 December 1965, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
18 April 1968, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
May 09, 2016
This almost Caprian tale loses its strength when it trades form for an exalted sense of spectacle and celebration. [Full Review in Spanish]October 15, 2015
"Freeheld" is a snapshot of a notable American moment.December 18, 2016
A typically vanilla offering that only hints at deeper "issues".October 15, 2015
[Freeheld] is sincere, to be sure, but unlikely to win any prizes. For starters, the most memorable character in this important story of a courageous woman is a man; that's a problem.September 21, 2016
Freeheld is not an Oscar movie. Freeheld is an HBO-on-a-Sunday-afternoon-because-you-don't-have-anything-else-to-do movie, and as an HBO-on-a-Sunday-afternoon-because-you-don't-have-anything-else-to-do movie, it's solid.October 09, 2015
It's a stiff, overly calculated piece of awards bait that has all the elements of an Academy Awards triumph - except a beating heart.May 05, 2016
A touching film based on a true story with perfect casting. [Full review in Spanish]October 16, 2015
Page and Julianne Moore, who plays Hester, have an easy if not electric chemistry, but they seem hamstrung by the movie-of-the-week tropes and Peter Sollett's plodding direction.