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Freedom Writers
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PG13,2hrs 2min
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Released:
January 5, 2007
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Featured Cast
Erin Gruwell
Scott Casey
Steve Gruwell
Margaret Vail, Margaret Campbell
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