Freedom Writers

Resource Information

The work Freedom Writers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Westfield Public Library (Ethel Everhard Memorial). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Freedom Writers

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures ; Double Feature Films ; MTV Films ; Jersey Films ; Kernos Filmproduktiosgesellschaft & Company

Contributor

• Double Feature Films
• Freedom Writers
• Jersey Films
• Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company
• MTV Films (Firm)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• DeVito, Danny
• Dempsey, Patrick, 1966-
• Glenn, Scott, 1942-
• Gruwell, Erin
• LaGravenese, Richard
• Shamberg, Michael
• Sher, Stacey
• Swank, Hilary

Subject

• Diaries -- Authorship
• Diaries -- Authorship -- Drama
• Education, Urban -- California
• Education, Urban -- California -- Drama
• Gruwell, Erin
• Gruwell, Erin -- Drama
• High school students -- Attitudes
• High school students -- Attitudes -- Drama
• High school students -- California
• High school students -- California -- Drama
• High school students -- California -- Social conditions
• High school students -- California -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Student publications -- California
• Student publications -- California -- Drama
• Teacher-student relationships -- California
• Teacher-student relationships -- California -- Drama
• Urban schools -- California
• Urban schools -- California -- Drama
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Feature
• Youth -- Feature

Genre

• Drama
• Melodrama
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Women
• Youth

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng
• eng

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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher ; screenplay by Richard LaGravenese ; music by Mark Isham, RZA ; directed by Richard LaGravenese

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for violent content, some thematic material and language

Language note

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (Dolby 5.1, Dolby 2.0) or French (Dolby 5.1) with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.M45

LC item number

F744366 2007

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

122

Target audience

general

Technique

live action