Hilary Swank
Erin Gruwell
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Jan 5, 2007 · Freedom Writers: Directed by Richard LaGravenese. With Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton. A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
- (85K)
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Richard LaGravenese
- 2007-01-05
Box office. $43.1 million. Freedom Writers is a 2007 American biographical drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario . It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary ...
Jan 5, 2007 · A dedicated teacher (Hilary Swank) in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take ...
- (126)
- Richard Lagravenese
- PG-13
- Hilary Swank
Summaries. A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school. 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 ...
Freedom Writers. Hilary Swank stars in this story of inner-city kids raised on drive-by shootings and hard-core attitude – and the teacher who gives them the one thing they need most: a voice of their own. 6,442 IMDb 7.6 2 h 2 min 2007. X-Ray 16+. Drama · Emotional · Tense · Touching.
Jan 5, 2007 · Directed by Richard LaGravenese. Biography, Crime, Drama. PG-13. 2h 3m. By Manohla Dargis. Jan. 5, 2007. As a cinematic subspecies, films about teachers working with throwaway kids tend to follow a...
About. Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed - a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them.
