Freedom Writers
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It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the sch... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Freedom Writers:

Hilary Swank
Patrick Dempsey
Scott Glenn
Imelda Staunton
April Hernandez Castillo
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It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. And it isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal - which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own idealistic way in life.

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EURWeb - 10/10 by Kam WilliamsHilary Swank delivers as impressive a performance as her Oscar-winning outings in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby.
Spectrum (St. George, Utah) - 9/10 by Bruce BennettA richly rewarding film experience that rises to the top of its genre.
PopMatters - 9/10 by Cynthia FuchsThe plot is predictable, the actors too old to play high school students, and the pacing too slow. But Freedom Writers also argues for listening to teenagers. That alone makes it strange and even a little wonderful.
Oregonian - 9/10 by Marc MohanWhat makes Freedom Writers work is the very thing that makes it seem like a drag: predictable inspiration.
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema - 9/10 by Mark PfeifferIt would be easy to write off Freedom Writers as another inspirational teacher movie, not to mention one in which the white character saves the minorities, but to do so would be unfair.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 9/10 by Sean AxmakerErin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is real, and for all the dramatic license that writer/director Richard LaGravenese takes in his film, her story -- and the stories of her students -- are moving.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Ruthe SteinOverall Freedom Writers is a noble effort. At a time when New Year's resolutions to change already are falling by the wayside, you can't help but be moved by a group of young people who followed through on their resolve.
Newark Star-Ledger - 8/10 by Stephen WhittyAn unashamed heart-tugger, Freedom Writers is based on the true story of Erin Gruwell, a teacher so full of gee-whiz decency she can only be played by Hilary Swank.
New York Daily News - 8/10 by Jack MathewsI say bring 'em on, if the stories can be told as well, as convincingly and as inspirationally as Richard LaGravenese's Freedom Writers, an educational fantasy that happens to be mostly true.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 8/10 by Cathy JakicicFreedom Writers manages to strike some fresh chords without playing its audience.

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