Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers is an American film drama directed by Richard LaGravenese from the year 2007.

Action

Erin Gruwell is set mid-1990s at Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach as an English teacher. She says of her superiors, she became a teacher because she wanted to change the world after the race riots in 1992.

Prevails at the school - as well as in the city - violence between members of different ethnic groups. Gruwell hear from their students, whose main goal is simply to survive.

One day they confiscated a racist drawing illustrating a student, and is furious about it. She asks the students if the word to them Holocaust is a term, but no one answers.

Gruwell recommends the diaries of Anne Frank as a school reading; impressed by the reading, the students want to invite Miep Gies, the person who had been hidden from the Anne Frank. They collect money to finance their journey. Writing down one's own experiences is to homework. The students learn during a trip to the Simon Wiesenthal Center on the Holocaust. Gruwell pays some of the necessary expenses out of pocket. You want to teach the students in this way, that hatred and violence lead to nothing. Impressed by what is written suggests Gruwell before, the books to be published as a book under the name Freedom Writers Diary.

In addition to her work as a teacher Gruwell takes several side jobs to to the students the readings to buy, because the Head of the Department denied her the support - on the grounds that they would get the books back only in defective condition or not. Due to their high workload Gruwell neglected her personal life, and after some time asked her husband Scott Casey divorce. Finally, they won the right to be allowed to continue to teach against the applied rotation principle at the school her class in high school.

Reviews

John Anderson wrote in the magazine Variety, the last film " from a long line of films about saints, the students would save" try to be honest and not to be afraid of being naïve. The result was "extremely pathetic ." The presentation of Hilary Swank was " sensitive " and "open."

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, the film is about bringing that message of hope and the possibility of changing their own destiny on an emotionally and intellectually satisfying way. He was not a great movie, but a " powerful drama," would act in the real emotionally charged scenes. Berardinelli praised the portrayal of April L. Hernandez, which look like a " blast ".

The lexicon of the International film verdict: "The intriguing and compelling protagonist educational endeavors to the fairy tale a true story, to avoid any kind of social kitsch, but fulfilled on the basis of the subject necessarily the clichés of the genre. "

Awards

Richard LaGravenese received in 2007 the Humanitas Prize and in 2008 was nominated for the screenplay for the NAACP Image Award.

Background

The plot is based on the data published in 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, the really existing Erin Gruwell wrote together with their students. The German edition was published in author house publishing 2007: Freedom Writers: have changed themselves and their environment by writing As a young teacher and 150 at-risk youth.

The film was shot in Long Beach and Los Angeles. He played in the cinemas of the United States until March 11, 2007, approximately 36.6 million U.S. dollars.

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