Matthew Bright
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The 1996 movie Freeway , starring Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon, accomplished some infinitely more interesting variations than what we are presented with here.
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Directed by Rupert Sanders
influenced by Tiptoes (2002)
Characters
Though beaten to it by Gary Oldman's legendary turn in the inexplicable Tiptoes, it has a gaggle of hale British actors playing dwarves, including a humiliated Bob Hoskins, tasked with being blind-guy exposition for little miss Joan of Arc.
Beyond the werewolf gimmick, it's an honest and thoroughly twisted portrait of adolescence that almost achieves the instant-classic status of a "Freeway," the Reese Witherspoon film that made a local sensation a few years back.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Directed by Tommy Wirkola
influenced by Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (2000)
Themes
If you’re going to make an edgy, violent, twisted and categorically adult version of Hansel and Gretel, you should go all the way — well, maybe not as exploitative as the fairy tale-inspired Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby, but something with balls.