Movie: Freedom Writers

Year: 2007

Also Known As: Écrire pour exister

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Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama

Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jaclyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn…

Plot: 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…

Rated: 7.4/10 from 24,378 votes on IMDb

Release Date: 5 January 2007 (USA)

Runtime: 123

Tagline: our story. our words.

Countries: Germany, USA

Directors: Richard LaGravenese

Writers: Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers

Budget: $21,000,000

Languages: English

Location: Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, California, USA