Freeway is a 1988 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Francis Delia from a screenplay by Darrell Fetty and Delia, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by then-NBC head-of-programming Deanne Barkley.[1][2] It stars Darlanne Fluegel, James Russo, Richard Belzer, Michael Callan, and Billy Drago.[3]
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Directed by | Francis Delia |
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Based on | Freeway by Deanne Barkley |
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Cinematography | Frank Byers |
Edited by | Philip Sgriccia |
Music by | Joe Delia |
Production company | Gower Street Pictures |
Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $142,671 |
After her husband’s murderer escapes justice, Sarah "Sunny" Harper (Fluegel) witnesses the work of a spree killer (Drago) who shoots people on the freeway and later quotes Bible passages to a local radio station’s psychiatrist disc jockey (Belzer). Police are unwilling to listen to Sunny, but a former cop named Frank Quinn (Russo) agrees to protect her, and later the two join forces to find the deranged freeway killer before he strikes again.
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