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Freedom writers (Motion picture)

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students by giving them a voice of their own.

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  • "Écrire pour exister"@en
  • "Écrire pour exister"
  • "Özgürlük yazarları"
  • "Besede svobode"
  • "Freedom writers"

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  • "L'histoire vraie d'Erin Gruwell qui, décidée à mener un combat contre l'ignorance et épaulée par des élèves et des professeurs, organise des conférences dans les écoles et autres lieux à travers l'Amérique afin de promouvoir le droit à l'accès à l'éducation."
  • "A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students by giving them a voice of their own."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "希拉蕊史旺飾演故事中一名致力於教育的老師,設法讓班上來自不同種族的學生和平相處,以獨特的授課方式誘發他們對課業感興趣.她鼓勵學生寫日記抒發心靈,潛移默化中導正這群街頭鬥士們的社會價值觀,重新認識種族間包容共存的和平力量"
  • "A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed: a voice. She inspires her students to overcome the gangs that divide them and the education system that forgot them."@en
  • "A gripping story of inner-city kids raised on drive-by shootings and hardcore attitude -- and the teacher who gives them the one thing they need most: a voice of their own. Dropped into the free-fire zone of a school torn by violence and racial tension, teacher Erin Gruwell battles an uncaring system in a fight to make the classroom matter in her students' lives. Now, telling their own stories, and hearing the stories of others, a group of supposedly "unteachable" teens will discover the power of tolerance, reclaim their shattered lives and change their world."@en
  • "Hilary Swank plays the role of Erin Gruwell, a new, excited schoolteacher who leaves the safety of her hometown, Newport Beach, to teach at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, a formerly high achieving school which has recently put an integration plan in place. Her enthusiasm is rapidly challenged when she realizes that her class are all "at-risk" high school students, also known as "unteachables", and not the eager college students she was expecting. The high school students assimilate into racial groups in the classroom, fights break out, and eventually most of the high school students stop attending class. Not only does Gruwell meet opposition from her high school students, but she also has a difficult time with her department head, who refuses to let her teach her high school students with books in case they get damaged and lost, and instead tells her to focus on training them discipline and obedience. One night, two high school students, Eva (April Lee Hernández), an Hispanic girl and narrator for much of film, and a Cambodian refugee, Sindy (Jaclyn Ngan), frequent the same convenience store. An additional student, Grant Rice (Armand Jones) is frustrated at losing an arcade game and demands a refund from the owner. When he storms out, Eva's boyfriend attempts a drive-by shooting, intending to kill Grant but misses, accidentally killing Sindy's boyfriend. As a witness, Eva must testify at court; she intends to guard "her own" in her testimony. At school, Gruwell intercepts a racist drawing by one of her high school students and utilizes it to teach them about the Holocaust. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted. Determined to reform her high school students, Gruwell takes on two part-time jobs to pay for more books and spends a lot more time at school, to the disappointment of her husband (Patrick Dempsey). Her students start to behave with respect and discover a lot more. A transformation is specifically visible in one student, Marcus (Jason Finn). Gruwell invites various Holocaust survivors to talk with her class about their experiences and requires the students to attend a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance. Meanwhile, her unorthodox training methods are scorned by her colleagues and department chair Margaret Campbell (Imelda Staunton). The following year comes, and Gruwell teaches her class again for its sophomore (second) year. In class, when reading The Diary of Anne Frank, they invite Miep Gies (Pat Carroll), the woman who sheltered Anne Frank from the German soldiers to talk to them. After they raise the money to bring her over, Miep shares her experiences hiding Anne Frank. When Marcus tells her that she is his hero, she denies it, claiming she was merely doing the right thing. Her denial leads to Eva to rethink her plan to lie during her testimony. When she testifies, she finally breaks down and tells the truth, much to some of her family members' dismay and to her own risk. Meanwhile, Gruwell asks her students to write their diaries in book form. She compiles the entries and names it The Freedom Writers Diary. Her husband divorces her and Margaret tells her she cannot teach her kids for their junior year. Gruwell fights this decision, eventually convincing the superintendent to permit her to teach her kids' junior and senior year. The film ends with a note that Gruwell successfully prepared numerous high school students to graduate high school and attend university. Directed by Richard LaGravenese."@en
  • "Erin Gruwell è una giovane insegnante di lettere al suo primo incarico in un liceo. Siamo a Los Angeles nel 1992, poco dopo gli scontri razziali che avevano messo a ferro e fuoco la città. Erin si vede affidare una classe composta da latinoamericani, cambogiani, afroamericanie un unico bianco. Provengono tutti da realtà sociali in cui il degrado e la violenza costituiscono parte integrante della vita quotidiana. Le istituzioni li vedono come un peso morto da "parcheggiare" in attesa che tornino nella strada. La Gruwell non si arrende né di fronte all̉istituzione né di fronte agli allievi che inizialmente la respingono convinti che sia l̉ennesima insegnante disinteressata al loro vissuto. Riuscirà a convincerli ad uscire dalla gabbia delle gang e a guardarsi dentro scrivendo dei diari che diverranno un libro. (Mymovies)."
  • "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."
  • "Rated: M (Moderate themes and violence, infrequent moderate coarse language). 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."
  • "Feature film from the USA. Drama. Based on a true story, shows the impact of a determined white teacher on a multi-racial class of disadvantaged teenagers in 1990s Southern California."
  • "Drama based on a true story. An inner city high school teacher is faced with a class of tough kids who are all in violent and volatile gangs. Slowly she earns their respect and then begins to persuade them to lay aside their racial differences and make peace."@en
  • "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 full of naive optimism, but quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives. This eventually bonds them together and pushes racial rivalries aside."
  • "Erin ist Lehrerin. Voller Enthusiasmus nimmt sie ihre erste Stelle an der Woodrow Highschool an. Doch in der Problem-Schule läuft es nicht so, wie sie sich ihren Beruf vorgestellt hat. Nur sehr schwer kommt sie an ihre Schüler heran. Mit aussergewöhnlichen Methoden gelingt ihr die Annäherung."
  • "Xi la rui shi wang shi yan gu shi zhong yi ming zhi li yu jiao yu de lao shi,she fa rang ban shang lai zi bu tong zhong zu de xue sheng he ping xiang chu,yi du te de shou ke fang shi you fa ta men dui ke ye gan xing qu.ta gu li xue sheng xie ri ji shu fa xin ling,qian yi mo hua zhong dao zheng zhe qun jie tou dou shi men de she hui jia zhi guan, chong xin ren shi zhong zu jian bao rong gong cun de he ping li liang."
  • "Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them."
  • "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."@en
  • "A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. She inspires her students to overcome the gangs that divide them, and the education system that forgot them."@en
  • "2 kez Oscar Ödülü kazanmış olan Hilary Swank, silahlarla, kötü muamelelerle büyümüş şehir çocuklarının hayatının anlatıldığı bu sürükleyici hikayede onlara yol gösteren cesur öğretmen Erin Gruwell rolündeki performansıyla göz dolduruyor."

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  • "Film adaptations"@en
  • "Youth"@en
  • "Women"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Film and video adaptations"@en
  • "Melodramas (Motion pictures)"@en
  • "Speelfilm"
  • "Melodrama"@en
  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Drammatico (Genere)"
  • "Erlebnisbericht"
  • "DVD-Video"
  • "Biographical films"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Feature films"
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  • "Freedom writers = Écrire pour exister"
  • "Freedom writers (Motion picture)"
  • "Freedom writers (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Freedom writers Écrire pour exister"@en
  • "Freedom writers Écrire pour exister"
  • "Freedom writers"
  • "Freedom writers"@en
  • "Freedom writers"@it
  • "Freedom Writers Écrire pour exister"@en
  • "Jie tou ri ji = Freedom writers"
  • "Freedom writers [DVD]"
  • "Freedom writers ihre Geschichte, ihre Worte, ihre Zukunft"
  • "Freedom writers ihre Geschichte, ihre Worte, ihre Zukunft; based on the book "The freedom writers diary" by Erin Gruwell"
  • "Freedom Writers [their story, their words, their future]"@en
  • "Freedom writers ihre Geschichte, ihre Worte, ihre Zukunft ; based on the book "The freedom writers diary" by Erin Gruwell"
  • "Freedom Writers"
  • "Freedom Writers"@en
  • "街頭日記 = Freedom writers"

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