Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a
gang-infested Long Beach, Calif., high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to
unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director
Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller The Freedom
Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves
and the World Around Them. Her students had been written off, and her chances of
succeeding scoffed at, but Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) wasn't about to go down
without a fight. In using the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A
Child's Life in Sarajevo, Gruwell was able to teach her students not only the
basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well. ~ Jason
Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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