Freedom Writers
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Summary:
Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller -The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the Worl... Full Summary >>
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Cast:
Hilary Swank - (Erin Gruwell)
Scott Glenn - (Steve Gruwell)
Imelda Staunton - (Margaret Vail)
Patrick Dempsey - (Scott Casey)
Mario - (Andre)
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Review:
By 2007, movies about inspirational teachers reaching out to the unreachable had become a no. 2 pencil a dozen, and Freedom Writers doesn't raise the overall value of the genre. However, its broad strokes do become more detailed as it moves forward. The true story is not the problem, even though Erin Gruwell's class -- ethnically diverse to t... Continue >>
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