Director: Richard LaGravenese

Writer: Richard LaGravenese

Based on a book: The Freedom Writers Diary by (many individuals)

Keywords: Drama

A newly-minted English teacher at an urban high school inspires her students to apply themselves in their classroom and the outside world.

ABSTRACT
Erin Gruwell is a young English teacher starting work at Long Beach's Woodrow Wilson High School in 1994, a school beset by academic difficulties and racial tensions ever since agreeing to take part in a student integration program two years earlier. Faced with the challenge of a lifetime in the form of the school's hostile student body, Erin steps outside the curriculum to assign her class a journal intended to hold their day-to-day thoughts and feelings, working to inspire her troubled pupils to make something of themselves in high school and beyond despite a lack of education funding and unsympathetic colleagues.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pat Carroll	Actor	5-May-1927		Make Room for Daddy
Patrick Dempsey	Actor	13-Jan-1966		Dr. McDreamy on Grey's Anatomy
Scott Glenn	Actor	26-Jan-1941		The Silence of the Lambs
John Benjamin Hickey	Actor	25-Jun-1963		Philip Stoddard on It's All Relative
Hunter Parrish	Actor	13-May-1987		Silas Botwin on Weeds
Imelda Staunton	Actor	9-Jan-1956		Vera Drake
Hilary Swank	Actor	30-Jul-1974		Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry

REVIEWS

Review by Francine Kaminski (posted on 19-May-2007)

Hilary Swank obviously stands in the light of Maureen O'hara, Yvonne DeCarlo, and not to forget, Kathrine Hepburn. Swank is believeable because she lives and breaths the part she is playing. Giving people hope with an "Amer-I-Can" positive attitude. We need more Swanks and movies like this to give our citizens hope and feeling of oneness.

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