Freedom writers
By: [director, Richard Lagravanese]
Contributors: Swank, Hilary, actor; Dempsey, Patrick, actor; Glenn, Scott, actor; Staunton, Imelda, 1956- actor; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Drama; Authorship; Teacher-student relationships; Urban schools; Diaries
Other titles: Container of (work): Freedom writers (Motion picture); Container of (expression): Freedom writers (Motion picture). French.
Description: 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.
Notes: Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Wide screen.

Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton.

Rating: PG-13; for violent content, some thematic material and language.

DVD.

English or French dialogue; Spanish or English subtitles.