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Freedom Writers (2007)
7.6
PG-13
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Duration: 123min
Country: US
Original Language: en
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Plot: Erin Gruwell is a new instructor at a racially divided high school. She is an English teacher for a class of kids who deal with gangs, poverty, and violence. She encourages them to gain tolerance and knowledge and offers them diaries in which they may record their tales. She pushes the school and her family while altering their life. With Hilary Swank, Freedom Writers is a real and inspirational drama.
Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Hernandez Castillo
Keywords: based on novel or book, biography, high school, daughter, holocaust, black people, diary, ghetto, violence in schools, principal witness
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