Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers is a 2007 dramatic film starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey.

Woodrow Wilson is a formerly highachieving school which has encountered some difficulties bearing its new racial integration plan. Gruwells enthusiasm is challenged when she finds her class is composed of atrisk students, the untouchables, and not the eagerforcollege students she expected. Her students selfsegregate into racial groups within the classroom. This is problematic, as gang fights break out and, consequently, most of her students stop attending class. Not only is Gruwell challenged with gaining her students trust on personal and academic levels, but she must do so with very little support from her professional peers and district higherups. For example, her department head refuses to provide Gruwell with an adequate number of books for her class because she insists they will get damaged and lost. Instead, she suggests that Gruwell focuses on instilling concepts of discipline and obedience in her classroom.One night, two high school students, Eva April Lee Hernndez, a LatinoAmerican girl and narrator for much of the film, and a Cambodian refugee, Sindy Jaclyn Ngan, frequent the same convenience store. An additional student, Grant Rice Armand Jones, an AfricanAmerican boy is frustrated at losing an arcade game and demands a refund from the store owner. When he storms out, Evas boyfriend Paco, as retaliation for losing a fist fight against Grant that took place earlier, attempts a driveby shooting, intending to kill Grant but misses, accidentally killing Sindys boyfriend. As a witness, Eva must testify at court she intends to guard her own in her testimony. ........

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