Live From Toronto Film Festival: Monday Sept. 14
Huff PostThree-fourths of the way through my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival today, I realized that, beside the documentary I'd seen Sunday, all the movies I'd chosen turned out to be dramas based on true stories. I followed that with the shattering Freeheld, based on the true story of a New Jersey police woman who, as she faces death from cancer, discovers that the county for which she works will not let her assign her pension benefits to her female domestic partner. Peter Sollett's Freeheld was, for me, the find of the day -- an intensely emotional film based on a true story that could easily win Julianne Moore her second Oscar in a row. You can look up on the Internet to see whether Hester won her case or you can wait and watch this wrenching story that features an equally heart-breaking performance from Page as the young woman confronting discrimination at her emotional low-point.
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