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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

What Freeheld gets right, it got well fitting cast in a roles they handle the most best. Julianne Moore plays a lead as an police officer phasing a devasteting desease. Ellen Page portrates perfectly her younger partner. Both captivate their characters essence and battles well.Downside is that their dialogue feels forced most of the time. Freeheld captivates the legal battle greatly and gives it time and emotion. But the majority of film it seems that there's no love story what that battle was initially supposed to be built on. Where's the connection that drives eithee of leads?There of, even though coverage on the story was kept together, I cannot possibly rate Freeheld more than 7 out of 10.

It's better than it has a right to be.Two women -- Moore and Page -- fall in love and move into a house in Ocean County in southern New Jersey. Moore is a detective on the police force and Page works as a mechanic. Well, southern New Jersey is not the New York metropolitan area nor a raffish suburb of Philadelphia. It's not exactly hick country either, not since the highways made it possible to commute to the cities, but it still retains some of its quaint charm. Ocean County includes the pine barrens, a sandy country of stunted pines, prickly pear cactus, and copper colored shallow creeks, a broad portion of leftover coastal plain. It's the only state home of the New Jersey pine snake (Putuophis m.melanoleucus), a tough specimen of which I was happy and proud to catch and release.Where was I? I do wish you'd stop interrupting my train of thought. Pretty soon I'll offer to show you where I store my specimens. Yes, so anyway Moore and Page have a happy household and eventually Moore's partner on the police force, Michael Shannon, comes around to accepting this unusual ménage. But then it is discovered that Moore has incurable lung cancer. Despite treatment she gets sicker and sicker and decides to leave her police pension to Page. Uh-oh. The couple aren't man and wife, just "domestic partners." Moore's employers at the police department are uncertain about the deal so the matter is referred to the Ocean County Board of Selectmen or Aldermen or Freeholders or whatever they are. They demur.The rest of the movie is taken up with Moore's search for what she calls equality, not special privilege, but the case is sensationalized by the media and all kinds of people with all kinds of motives show up at the Board meetings. Among the most impressive of these visitors is Steve Carrell as a hyperenergetic New York gay Jew who prances around leading chants and calling everyone "Sweetheart." Nothing in the movie comes as much of a surprise. There is anger and confusion. A few locals support the cause, the Selectmen are afraid it will cost them votes to hand the pension over to Page, Shannon is stalwart in his support, and sooner or later the anticipated happens. The direction by Peter Sollett is unobtrusive. Moore gives an excellent performance as usual. She sickens credibly. I groan with delight whenever Ellen Page speaks. There is no other such offhand voice, no matter what the subject. But, alas, she's not given much chance to exercise her acting chops. For most of the movie she trudges around wearing a face like the mask of tragedy, as if she'd just been told they stopped serving breakfast at eleven. It never changes. If this were fiction and her name could be made up, it would be Delores not Stacie. Michael Shannon is surprisingly effective. He's beetle-browed and hardly handsome but he brings an everyman quality to his roles precisely because he doesn't seem to be an actor. His underplaying added considerable power to his role as a schizophrenic in "Take Shelter."I said initially that it was better than it had a right to be. What I meant was that it wasn't sicklied over with the ghoulish cast of excessive piteousness. Think what could have been done with this adult flick if it had appeared as a drama on Lifetime Movie Network.

Good drama with some fine acting from Ellen Page and Julianne Moore.They feel realistic as a couple and as the characters they portray, Ellen Page plays a tomboy with a bit of a manly body movement pattern and a boyish haircut to match which is true to the real life person she is portraying and Julianne Moore plays a detective who's in the closet.Starts out solid but drops the ball a bit in the middle when it becomes a little too focused on politics instead of the close-up romance between the 2 it initially is and other characters taking up a little too much space and time.I like Steve Carell a lot and I don't necessarily dislike his character in this it's just that his character is not the reason why we are watching the movie Julianne Moore's and Ellen Page's characters are so giving him so much to say and do in the second half takes away a little too much focus.But it occasionally gets back on track and is overall still a pretty good film.6.5/10

If you like to enjoy excellent performance and enjoy a movie, this is a excellent choice.Forget all the bad/good comments, reviews and the documentary in 2008, just sit and try to see the movie. Don't expect anything just give a try.I saw this movies because at the theater ticket I bought a wrong number of movie room, When the movie start, I try to correct my mistake, but I can't (the only choice in that moment was leave), so I give a try and the end this movies was awesome......I'm very happy to made my mistake to choose a wrong movie on the theater ticket.Best regards!!!!!