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Freedom Writers is an excellent movie.Shows the glory of patience and creativity. I use it in the classroom for lessons on cultural diversity.
The characters are so real and you get very involved in their lives. I bought this movie to show to my English Comp class and it is SUCH an excellent choice for that. I recommend this to ANYONE.
Thank God there is HOME SCHOOLING for kids that can't take that kind of schooling and for dedicated parents who see the need to stay home and teach their own children with the Bible and all the schooling they need to enter Higher Learning.
Hilary Swank is pretty good anyway, butwith an Arena Football 1 connection inhere, I had to give it @ least threestars. Any mention of the sport in thepopular culture is worth picking up on.Signed, An Arena Football Original,Rich Salzer, Chicago and Miami
The story is very predictable but who cares, Hillary Swank is on top of her game as a young naive teacher in an inner-city school in LA. She bucks the system and realizes that failure is not an option.She reaches out to the children by having the read "The Diary Of Anne Frank" which shows her kids that they are not alone on feeling like they are victims in an unforgiving world.You will need a box of kleenex to get through this movie and even though his role is very small, Scott Glenn shines through as Hilary's father who stands behind his daughter and realizes that he too has much to learn from her students.This movie will make a great stocking stuffer. Without trying to sound like Roger Ebert, I am going to keep this review simple. She has the forgotten children, warehouse them and hope they drop out before senior year.
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