Julianne Moore and Ellen Page continue their fascinating involvement with gay-themed movies and gay filmmakers in Freeheld, opening October 2.
New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Cant wait to see this
I swapped out a new embed. Maybe this one won’t be afflicted with a Time-Warner highjack leech.
^^^me too. Every time I push the close button it takes me to the website.
sorry, but I can’t get rid of that time warner cable ad.
I don’t think this trailer is as awful as some people are suggesting, but it certainly isn’t the most promising thing we’ve seen!
I think it’s weird that with this trailer they’re positioning it as an awards vehicle for Julianne Moore. Though she clearly has the most showy work, she did *just* win. Is Ellen Page’s part so inconsequential that it deserves to be minimized by the trailer? They seem to have more faith in Michael Shannon! I just think it’s weird. Not awful. Weird.
This trailer looks ridiculous! And I’m so tired of Ellen Page playing Ellen Page. When she was nominated for Juno, we were not familiar to her work but enough is enough.
Looks good. Carell fares better in this trailer than in the plodding entirety of FOXCATCHER!
This trailer was terrible! Truly disappointed by how cheesy this looked like…i’m also surprised that they didn’t mention Carell and with the tagline “Academy Award Nominee”. At the end, i don’t think this will be a contender, oh well, it seems super oscar-bait…
I think this looks really good and important. I don’t love what Moore’s doing with her voice though. I understand it’s meant to be raspy, but it sounds off to me.
caleb roth
Luise Rainer (1936,1937), too, but that’s it, only two. I do think she has a shot, mainly because it does seem that unless someone like Carey Mulligan and Saoirse Ronan (and their respective film) becomes a force to be reckoned with, Best Actress will probably go to a previous winner : Cate Blanchett (Carol), Marion Cotillard (Macbeth), Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Our Band is Crisis (Sandra Bullock), Meryl Streep (Ricki and the Flash), Kate Winslet (The Dressmaker)…and if that happens, why not Julianne Moore, also a previous – though clearly more recent – winner ?
Of course, creative category placement strategies should be expected, too : my guess is considering how unlikely (=close to impossible) it is to score back-to-back Best Actress trophies, Ellen Page will be placed in lead and Julianne Moore will be in supporting. Considering her recent Blue Jasmine win, Blanchett will be briefly considered for supporting, too, but I doubt that will happen, Mara will either join her in lead or be campaigned in supporting.
Meanwhile, I’ll be rooting for a deserving veteran yet to be nominated for an Oscar (Blythe Danner), a plucky newcomer with an aneducationesque breakout role (Bel Powley) and a superstar in the making (Alicia Vikander) who in 2015 had already headlined a criminally overlooked period piece (Testament of Youth) and a cult-bound sci-fi (Ex Machina) … and this year alone she still has Tulip Fever, The Light Between the Oceans, Adam Jones, The Danish Girl…oh, and those six are just her prestige pics, she also found time for big-budget fare like Seventh Son (ew) and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (could work).
I think Hepburn is the only actress ever to win back-to-back Oscars? Does Moore have a shot?
Thanks to William for the link.
Geez, I was expecting a lot more. That trailer was pretty awful.
Moore and Paige looks great in the trailer, but if the movie is up to par, Moore could easily be snubbed (probably unjustly) since she’s won just last year. Also, the best actress line-up this year looks strong. However, I don’t mind a Paige VS Mara supporting show down!
However, watching this trailer made me super emo since the guy whom I’ve decided to spend my life with just broke up with me 🙁
I think this looks very good. Very good.
Could go either way, for the record these are definitely baity roles in good hands, so even if disappoints, the quartet – Moore, Page, Shannon, Carrell – of performances definitely won’t. Oscar-wise the interesting aspect here is Julianne Moore : could she become only the third (first in almost half a century) actress to win Best Actress in consecutive years ? Well…probably only if the film around her is as strong as her performance is bound to be.
In terms of execution, this could easily slip into cliche-ridden TV movie territory, but it’s an important story and the acting looks great so I look forward to seeing it and hope that it is good.