It takes a brave person to take on the system when their world is crashing down around them and their life hangs by a thread but love can do strange things to a person in those final moments. Would you be brave enough to take on a system, take on former friends who now become enemies because of the person you love.
Could you be that voice in the dark, shouting for justice? Julianne Moore can and she will in this remarkable true story that takes one love and turns it into a movement.
Freeheld comes to cinemas in October and we'll be first in line to see this potential award winner!
Based on the Oscar®-winning short documentary and adapted by the writer of Philadelphia, FREEHELD is the true love story of Laurel Hester [Julianne Moore] and Stacie Andree [Ellen Page] and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells [Michael Shannon], and activist Steven Goldstein [Steve Carell], unite in Laurel and Stacie’s defence, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.