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Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers is a 2007 American biographical drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario.
A dedicated teacher, played by Hilary Swank, in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals.
It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary written by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at their High School in Long Beach, California.
The soundtrack is mainly composed of hip hop songs from the early 1990s, but also contains new songs by will.i.am, Mark Isham and Talib Kweli amongst others.
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