Freeheld

Freeheld (2015)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2015-10-02

Country

United States

Production

Endgame Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, Double Feature Films, High Frequency Entertainment

Genre

Romance, Drama

Budget

$7 000 000

Revenue

$1 447 337

Website

http://www.freeheld.movie/

Director

Peter Sollett

Actors

Julianne Moore, Elliot Page, Steve Carell, Michael Shannon, Luke Grimes, Josh Charles, Mary Birdsong, Dennis Boutsikaris, Skipp Sudduth, Jeannine Kaspar
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Scenario

Producer

Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Julie Goldstein, Elliot Page, James D. Stern, Jack Selby, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Duncan Montgomery, Cynthia Wade

Operator

Maryse Alberti

Composer

Hans Zimmer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Andrew Mondshein
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• A Catholic boys' school in New Rochelle, New York, refused to provide a location for filming a scene from the movie due to the dialogue in that scene and their religious views on homosexuality.
• The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival less than three months after the U.S. Supreme Court passed a law recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide. “The premiere was timely, though not by design,” says Julianne Moore, who plays Laurel. “The film is a beautiful example of how far we’ve come in those 10 years, but how awful things were just a few years ago.”
• Julianne Moore spent a lot of time researching the role of Laurel Hester. She started with the eponymous documentary film by director Cynthia Wade, which won an Oscar in the Best Short Documentary category in 2008. “There’s a lot of footage of Laurel in the film, and Cynthia shared all the transcripts with me,” the actress says. “Stacy Andread also was incredibly generous. She still lives in the same house she lived in with Laurel. She dug up boxes of photos and showed me newspaper clippings.”
• The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival less than three months after the U.S. Supreme Court passed a law recognizing same-sex marriage nationwide. "The premiere was timely, though not intentionally so," says Julianne Moore, who plays Laurel. "The film is a wonderful example of how far we've come in these 10 years, but how awful things were just a few years ago."
• Julianne Moore spent a lot of time researching the role of Laurel Hester. She began with the identically titled documentary film by director Cynthia Wade, which won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary in 2008. "There's a lot of footage of Laurel in the film, and Cynthia shared all the transcripts with me," says the actress. "Stacy Andrese was also incredibly generous. She still lives in the same house she lived in with Laurel. She dug up boxes of photos and showed me newspaper clippings."