Themes: Cons and Scams, Escape From Prison, Dangerous Friends
Main Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Maria Celedonio, Vincent Gallo, David Alan Grier, Michael T. Weiss
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Despite the efforts of her sleazy attorney, Mr. Butz (David Alan Grier), teen drug dealer/car thief Crystal (Natasha Lyonne) is sentenced to a 25-year prison term, the first segment of which will be served in a youth correctional facility where she will be treated for her rampant bulimia. There, in-between binge/purge marathons with her fellow eating-disordered inmates and relentless harassment of the hapless authorities, she fends off the lesbian advances of her psychotic cellmate, Cyclona (Maria Celedonio), a serial killer who's just received a life sentence. The two escape together and embark on a cross-country road trip in search of Sister Gomez (Vincent Gallo), the beneficent nun who protected Cyclona from the sexual predations of her family during her troubled childhood south of the border. Where writer/director Matthew Bright's original Freeway was a modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Freeway 2 riffs on Hansel and Gretel; it borrows only the trailer-park trappings of the earlier film, making the titular allusion to automobiles somewhat tenuous. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
Review
Here are some of the people likely to be offended by Freeway 2: Confessions of Trickbaby if they take this flick even a tad too seriously: lawyers, African-Americans, correctional officers, people with eating disorders, wheelchair users, lesbians, Latinos, amputees, poor white people, the elderly, Catholics, transsexuals, the entire population of Tijuana, and anyone who is disturbed by necrophilia, incest, pedophilia, vomit, prostitution, drug use, compulsive masturbation, multiple homicide, Vincent Gallo's acting career, or gigantic prosthetic genitalia. In fact, this update of the reform-school girl genre takes exploitation to such absurd extremes that it can only be viewed as an over-the-top comedy, one that rekindles the spirit of John Waters a mere two decades after Hollywood de-clawed him. Natasha Lyonne, in a series of frocks and fright wigs that would make a New York drag queen flee in terror, brings the same blasé naturalism to the role of trash-talking, trick-whipping, vomit-obsessed Crystal, aka "White Girl," that she did to her likable young characters in films such as Slums of Beverly Hills. Maria Celedonio, meanwhile, turns Cyclona into the apotheosis of art-directed teen depravity. With her washboard abs, cute outfits, and homicidal tics, she comes off like a butch refugee from pop trio TLC gone way over the edge. Leaving no sacred cow unmunched (or unregurgitated), Freeway 2 emerges as a grotesque parody/celebration of the overmedicated, parent-blaming, morally relativistic cultural implosion that Jerry Springer and his ilk first foisted upon our popular culture. Most will abhor it, a few will worship it, and it will doubtless have a long shelf life in the cult sections of independent video emporiums. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
April Telek - Mrs. Wilson; John Landis - Judge; Max Perlich - Flacco; Marc Baur - TV Cop; Thomas Heaton - Grandpa; Richard Henders - American Trick; Kevin Leslie - Junior; Joanne Bates - Female Jailer; Freda Perry - Mrs. Wilson's Asst.; Bob Dawson - Detective Creldo; Jennifer Griffin - Detective Dollar; Amber Warnat - 2nd White Girl; Cheralynn Bailey - Amputee Sex Brat; Kendall Saunders - Bianca; Parker Smith - Mousy Nicole; Alfonso Quijada - Federale; Abel Urbina - Mexican Trick; Pat Waldron - Grandma; Paul Bittante - INS Agent #1; Jose Vargas - Mexican Detainee; Julia Ocenas - Corky; Catlin Anderson - Vic, Goody Two Shoes Nazi; Alieka Perreault - Courthouse Whore
Credit
Jennifer Sorko - Art Director, Liz Shelton - Art Director, Natasha Lyonne - Associate Producer, Kelly Zombor - Boom Operator, Mary Vernieu - Casting, Anne McCarthy - Casting, Lawrence B. Abramson - Co-producer, Katia Stano - Costume Designer, Joe McDougall - First Assistant Director, Jason Furukawa - First Assistant Director, Debra Herst - First Assistant Director, Matthew Bright - Director, George Erschbamer - Second Unit Director, Suzanne Hines - Editor, Charles Band - Executive Producer, Donald Kushner - Executive Producer, Peter Locke - Executive Producer, Samuel Hadida - Executive Producer, Victor Hadida - Executive Producer, Jonathan Goodwill - Line Producer, Bob Perkis - Line Producer, Kennard Ramsey - Composer (Music Score), Gerry Gershman - Musical Direction/Supervision, J.J. Holiday - Songwriter, Brad Boles - Makeup, Angelina P. Cameron - Makeup, Elissa B. Frittaion - Makeup, Bruce Huston - Makeup Special Effects, Jason Palmer - Makeup Special Effects, Brian Davie - Production Designer, Joel Ransom - Cinematographer, Brad Wyman - Producer, Chris Hanley - Producer, Rory Cutler - Special Effects, Adam Blantz - Sound Mixer, Eric Batut - Sound/Sound Designer, Markus Innocenti - Sound Editor, George Josef - Stunts, Bob Perkis - Unit Production Manager, Michael Rosser - Unit Production Manager, Matthew Bright - Screenwriter, Ken Hovgaard - Production Assistant, John Bogosian - Sound Effects Editor, Gordon Alan Campbell - Key Grip, Kevin Leslie - Second Assistant Director, Juliana Vit - Assistant Makeup, Debra Torpe - Costumes Supervisor, Tiffany MacFarlane - First Assistant Accountant, Tricia Fass - First Assistant Editor, Craig Stapleton - Production Accountant, Tom Braidwood - Second Unit Assistant Director, Dave Bene - Second Unit Assistant Director, Sam Higgins - Set Decorator, Ian P. OBriain - Set Decorator
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999exploitation film, written and directed by Matthew Bright. It stars Natasha Lyonne as Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter, and María Celedonio as Angela "Cyclona" Garcia.[1] As the original film was partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, the second film is somewhat based on Hansel and Gretel.
When Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is sentenced to 25 years in a minimum security hospital, she teams up with Angela "Cyclona" Garcia and escapes. Cyclona is convinced her beloved Sister Gomez can help "White Girl" with her eating disorder and they head to Tijuana. On the way Cyclona murders a family and has sex with the dead bodies. "White Girl" is not happy that Cyclona has stopped taking her meds and insists she continue to take occasional doses should they continue together. They steal the family's car and make their way south. On the way, Cyclona reveals how Sister Gomez saved her from being molested by her father and possibly aliens. After drinking one too many beers and huffing some paint, they crash and fall down a hill laughing. They catch a ride on a freight train only to be assaulted by a crack addict. Cyclona kills him to protect White Girl, and the two make off with his bag of crack and guns. Venturing into the woods, they leave a trail of crack which is picked away by shady men with crow feathers on their hats. Lost and confused, they make it to the border only to have a stand-off with customs officials, both of whom Cyclona kills. "White Girl" violently pistol-whips Cyclona and after making her point, the two race to the suburbs of Tijuana.
In Tijuana, Crystal/White Girl makes money by luring men to dark alleys on the promise of a good time, and mugging them. Cyclona and White Girl also have a moment with beer, a shower, a vibrating bed, and some rampant lesbian sex. Finally they find a poster that shows Sister Gomez is in town. Sister Gomez appears to be a Catholic/spiritist healer; Cyclona is very keen that they visit her, for Sister Gomez has protected her from abuse in the past, and might be able to help them. They visit Sister Gomez at her gaudy mission house. The Sister makes an enormous roast feast for her "little movie star" (Cyclona) and the friend "with the hungry demon" (Crystal), referring to her bulimia. Cyclona then disappears as White Girl is forced to work for Sister Gomez in the same way as she has been doing, in exchange for food. Finally Crystal grows weary and makes her way to the basement, where she finds small children in a bondage room with a U.F.O shaped lantern. There is blood everywhere. Cyclona is hanging half-nude in a bondage style contraption. She tells Crystal that Sister Gomez made her watch while she chopped up children and made food out of them. She reveals that her ultimate plan for Crystal was to fatten her up with the meat of the children, and then, serve Crystal up for dinner as well. Crystal concludes that Sister Gomez is the leader of a bizarre cult that rapes and eats children and then sells the videos, protected by the front of a Catholic mission. Ready to deliver justice, White Girl/Crystal frees Cyclona and kills all the cult members; she also reveals Sister Gomez to be a rather well-endowed man. Not succumbing to bullets, Gomez is thrown in the oven. Burning, Gomez screams of his 5,000 years of terror and the revenge from his father Jupiter that will ensue. Crystal, keeping a promise made earlier, is forced to kill Cyclona in a tearful scene rather than allow her to be captured. Cyclona, wishing to leave behind a life of abuse and violence, hopes to be reincarnated as an eagle (we discover that Sister Gomez was her earliest abuser). White Girl makes a deal with the federales and leaves with her lawyer/pimp, stating "I'm not hungry anymore."
