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Freedom Writers [Blu-ray]

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Released: 2007-05-22

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Freedom Writers [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Mario, April Lee Hernandez, Robert Wisdom, John Benjamin Hickey, Pat Carroll, Hunter Parrish, Kristin Herrera, Jaclyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Antonio Garcia, Giovonnie Samuels, Will Morales, Armand Jones, Ricardo Molina, Angela Alvarado, Anh Nguyen, Liisa Cohen, Brian Bennett, Mr. Horace Hall, Tim Halligan, Lisa Banes, Giselle Bonilla, Earl Williams, Blake Hightower, Angela Sargeant, Robin Skye, Chil Kong, Juan Garcia, Larry Cahn, Sharaud Moore, Abel Soto, Dan Warner, Randy Hall, Carl Paoli, Dominic Daniel, Cody Chappel, DJ Motive8, Renee Firestone, Eddie Ilam, Elisabeth Mann, Gloria Ungar

Director(s): Richard LaGravenese

Features:
Commentary by director Richard LaGravenese and Hilary Swank
Deleted scenes
Making 'A Dream'
Freedom writers family
Freedom Writers: the story behind the story
Theatrical trailer

Freedom Writers [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Details

Video:
Enchanced Widescreen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 122
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 097361243917
Product Code: PRT124391BR
Format: Blu-Ray DVD
Year:2007
Studio: Paramount

Freedom Writers [Blu-ray] Blu-Ray DVD Summary Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them.

Her students had been written off, and her chances of succeeding scoffed at, but Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) wasn't about to go down without a fight.

Long Beach is a place where a new war is waged with each passing day, and when the hardened students who walk those dangerous hallways sense an outsider attempting to understand their plight, their cynical resentment threatens to keep a deadly cycle in motion.

Despite the initially hostile reaction she receives in the classroom, Gruwell uses the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo to teach her students not only the basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well.

Later, when the time comes to tell their own tales in a project specially designed to explore the daily violence that the majority of students have grown numb to, the barriers that had once stood so strong gradually begin to crumble.

When the only chance for survival is to befriend the person who was once your mortal enemy, the world is opened to a whole new realm of possibilities.