Synopsis
Their story. Their world. Their future.
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Freedom Writers
2007 Directed by Richard LaGravenese
Cast
Hilary Swank Scott Glenn Imelda Staunton Patrick Dempsey Mario April Lee Hernandez Robert Wisdom John Benjamin Hickey Pat Carroll Hunter Parrish Kristin Herrera Jaclyn Ngan Sergio Montalvo Jason Finn Deance Wyatt Vanetta Smith Gabriel Chavarria Antonio García Giovonnie Samuels Will Morales Armand Jones Ricardo Molina Angela Alvarado Liisa Cohen Tim Halligan Renee Firestone Eddie Ilam Elisabeth Mann Gloria Ungar Show All…
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Dino Dimuro Christopher Assells Per Hallberg Michael Keller Scott Millan Karen Baker Landers Dan Hegeman
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Alternative Titles
Escritores de la libertad, Escritores da Liberdade
Popular reviews
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Rotten Tomatoes: 70%
Metacritic Metascore: 64
IMDB: 7.581/100
Release Date: 05 January 2007
Distributor: Paramount
Budget: $21M
Worldwide Gross: $43M
Total Film Awards: 2Andre: " Justice doesn't mean the bad guy goes to jail, it just means that someone pays for the crime."
SYNOPSIS: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
Woodrow Wilson High School is located in Long Beach, California. The school is voluntarily integrated, and it isn't working. The Asians, the blacks, the Latinos, and a very few whites not only don't get along but also stay within their cultural cliques and are part of protective and violent gangs. There…
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Wow, I really don't understand the mostly-average reviews this film has on this site -- this film was amazing. Almost everything about it was amazing. Hilary Swank was fantastic, which means a lot because normally I don't enjoy her films. All the children in the classroom were very captivating; I grew emotionally attached to each one of them. The purpose and subject matter of this film was very engrossing to me -- racial injustice, especially when it comes to youth that don't get fair opportunities, is an issue I care about immensely. The story line quickly drew me in, as it was very emotionally gripping -- so much so that I teared up a bit on more than one occasion.…
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"your faces are forever engraved in my heart."
me crying throughout the entire runtime, even though i know what happens in every scene and could recite it line by line if you asked me to? more likely than you think..
this is the film i hold dearest to my heart, even above things like call me by your name, which a lot of you guys know i adore. if anyone were to ask me what my favorite film is, this is my automatic answer. without doubt, without question, without hesitation. freedom writers has been my favorite film since i saw it for the first time in seventh grade when it came out, and nothing has ever topped it for me since…
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The best idea contained in this film isn't the idea that you can break free of the cycle through pursuing an education, but rather it's the idea for a movie about Anne Frank where she straight up murders Adolf Hitler in the end.
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Why was her husband such an ass???? He was insecure because he wasn’t doing anything and tried to shame her for her success... smh
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I think we all had that English teacher who would play this when they didn't feel like teaching
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