Freedom writers / Paramount Pictures ; Double Feature Films ; MTV Films ; Jersey Films ; Kernos Filmproduktiosgesellschaft & Company ; screenplay by Richard LaGravenese ; produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher ; directed by Richard LaGravenese.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• LaGravenese, Richard, director, screenwriter.
• DeVito, Danny, producer.
• Shamberg, Michael, producer.
• Sher, Stacey, producer.
• Swank, Hilary, actor.
• Dempsey, Patrick, 1966- actor.
• Glenn, Scott, 1942- actor.
• Staunton, Imelda, 1956- actor.
• Isham, Mark, composer.
• Gruwell, Erin.
• Paramount Pictures Corporation, producer.
• Double Feature Films, producer.
• MTV Films (Firm), producer.
• Jersey Films, producer.
• Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company, producer.
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm), distributor.
• Freedom Writers.

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Gruwell, Erin--Film adaptations.
• Gruwell, Erin.
• Freedom Writers--Film adaptations.
• Freedom Writers.
• Teenagers.
• High school teachers.
• High school students.
• Social conditions.
• Student publications.
• Teacher-student relationships.
• Education, Urban.
• California.
• Education, Urban--California--Drama.
• Teacher-student relationships--California--Drama.
• Student publications--California--Drama.
• High school students--California--Social conditions--Drama.
• High school teachers--California.
• Teenagers--California--Drama.

Genre:

• Film adaptations.
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Teen films.
• Feature films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• polychrome

Edition:

Widescreen.

Place of Publication:

Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007]

Language Note:

Closed-captioned.

System Details:

• DVD; Dolby digital 5.1, 2.0; Region 1.
• digital
• optical
• mixed
• Dolby digital 5.1
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1

Summary:

A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment is something that the class can bite into with relish. This eventually bonds them together and pushes racial rivalries aside. Draws heavily from the published journals of the real students themselves.

Participant:

Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee Hernandez, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jacklyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Hunter Parrish.

Credits:

Director of photography, Jim Denault ; editor, David Moritz ; music, Mark Isham, RZA .

Notes:

• Based on the book "The Freedom writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them" by the Freedom writers and Erin Gruwell.
• Originally released in 2006.
• Special features: commentary by director Richard LaGravenese and actor Hilary Swank; making 'A dream' Freedom writers family- Freedom writers: the story behind the story; theatrical trailer; photo gallery.

Related Work:

• Gruwell, Erin. Freedom Writers diary.
• Freedom Writers. Freedom Writers diary.

ISBN:

141573111X

OCLC:

84727046

Publisher Number:

• 097363465041
• 34650 Paramount Home Entertainment