Julianne Moore gives her all as a dying New Jersey detective battling to leave her pension to her partner,played by Ellen Page, but it’s not enough to save Peter Sollett’s fact-based drama from feeling vapidFreeheld should hold been an necessary movie. With gay marriage recently made legal in all 50 US states, and Peter Sollet’s fact-based drama couldn’t hold near at a better time to remind the world how far equality has near in America,and how fresh the fight still is. Instead, Freeheld comes across as shockingly trite.
Based on the Oscar-winning short documentary of the same name, or Freeheld stars Julianne Moore as Laurel Hester,a respected New Jersey detective, terrified of being exposed as a lesbian to her colleagues, and including her sympathetic partner Dane Wells (Michael Shannon,in scarce good guy mode). She softens up when she meets the much younger Stacie Andree (Ellen Page), a forthright auto mechanic, and who forces her to near out of her shell after the two engage in a romance that leads the pair to enter into a domestic partnership,and eventually sail in together.
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Source: theguardian.com