Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Imran Ahmed Wow - if anyone needed confirmation many US inner city urban areas resemble war zones worse than those found in Third World cities they should watch this movie!And it's a movie worth watching. Sure, it's cliched and predictable but does that matter ... not really because it's based on a true story (Hollywood style). Swank is an idealist teacher who takes 'at risk' students and turns them into scholars with a quest for learning and, more importantly, for doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing. The movie also illustrates the impact a good teacher has in shaping a human's outlook of the world. Despite being slightly on the longer side - over two hours - I didn't glance at my watch even once. It's a decent, feel-good movie. Best of all, it's true.

paulinestrs I fell in love with this movie the first time I watch it. I'm usually not that person that watch twice or more than twice a movie; but when it's about good movies like this one, I just can't help it.It describes so much and so perfectly the situation people has been through during this gang war and those whole story is perfectly describes. The actors are playing their parts perfectly; and even though I haven't been through what they did, you can totally feel the emotions and imagine their life for a little while. It makes you think that there is always worse things that happen to other compared to you. It makes you understand that maybe you should stop complaining and stop being selfish. That maybe you should know people before judging them because you have not even a clue what they've been through.In conclusion, this is a wonderful movie I would watch again and again.

Dominic LeRose If there's anything about Hilary Swank movies, it's that they involve a major social issue. In her leading role in "Freedom Writers" we see her portray the real life teacher who pushed her high school students to achieve wellness both emotionally and academically. Her students surrounded by drugs, violence and other bad influences, Swank's character, Erin Gruwell, pushes her students beyond belief and struggles to maintain a healthy marriage. The heavily inspired Richard LaGravenese directs and writes this feel- good, stand up and cheer type of film. LaGravenese fails to expose the true hardship of what inner-city students face each day. He focuses too much on the relationships between Gruwell, which, admittedly, he does handle well. It's just that he puts too much emphasis on the student-teacher relationships, failing to dig deep into the feelings of the students, or the hard lives they face. On the other hand, we get immersed into a political scandal that leads to a feel-good end that many younger viewers with compassion can relate too. The maturity level of "Freedom Writers" gets a little to PG-13, leaving out gritty and powerful details that are vital for carrying out a motivational true story influenced by harrowing courage and struggle. If only some power infiltrated this potential excellent film, "Freedom Writers" would be nothing short of magnificent. But I'm forced to give it a "B" rating due to the lack of detail and the misuse of emotional content. Not to mention it gets sappier than a soap opera. Don't let the flaws prevent you from viewing a good film though. You'll learn something!

Marcus Willis Freedom Writers is definitely my favorite because it shows the life of a young teacher, named Erin Gruwell who leaves the safety of her hometown in order to teach at a school that's in a bad neighborhood. The school is known for gang fights, segregation, and high students drop out rate. The teacher wants to help the students out, but the students are rebellious. Erin has problems with the head board because she wants books for the students so they can learn and read them in class but they want her to focus on obedience and disciplining them. She tries to teach the students a lesson by stopping racist remarks in class. She begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, raped, seeing friends die and being evicted. She gets a second job because she is paying for the books and extracurricular activities for the class and that's hindering her marriage as well because she is spending more time with the students and not her husband. Erin gains their trust and ends up getting the same students for another year. Eventually, she has them read the "Diary of Anne Frank" and the students decide to raise money and fly Miep Gies who sheltered Anne Frank in the Holocaust. This changed the students because she was a Hero but Miep tell them that she was just doing the right thing and one of the students names Eva realize she is not doing the right thing because she want testify against her boyfriend because he killed an innocent man. When Eva does break down and tell the truth, she gets attacked by members of her gang because she told and has to leave to stay with her Aunt. Erin gets all the journal entries and names it The Freedom Writers Diary. The film ends with Gruwell successfully prepared numerous high school students to graduate high school and attend college, for many the first in their families to do so. Freedom Writers had a domestic gross of $36,605,602 and had a foreign gross of $6,485,139 bringing the movie to a total gross of $43,090,741 worldwide. On the film's opening weekend it grossed a total of $9,405,582. 69% of the reviews were positive.