‘Freedom Writers’ is the nauseatingly earnest yet thoroughly winning account of real-life maverick high-school teacher Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank), whose ceaseless struggle to guide her ...

Erin Gruwell, whose story is told in Richard LaGravenese’s movie “Freedom Writers,” is a quiet American hero. An idealistic young teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., ...

Hilary Swank, playing the part of a teacher named Erin Gruwell, managed to do just that in “Freedom Writers.” As the movie started, she seemed too fake in her portrayal of a real-life person. She ...

Teacher Jenni Currie didn't know when she took her students at Vigor High School on a field trip to see the movie "Freedom Writers" in 2007 ... true story of teacher Erin Gruwell, who taught ...

“I'm here today to tell you that you always have a choice.” Miss Reyes was one of Erin Gruwell's original Freedom Writers, made famous by the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” and the 2007 ...

In this case, because the story is based on the real-life Erin Gruwell and her real-life class. More crucially, “Freedom Writers,” initially at least, paints such a hopeless picture of ...

Erin Gruwell is the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation and the editor of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them ...

By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press This review was written for the theatrical release of “Freedom Writers ... directed by Richard LaGravenese, Erin Gruwell (Swank) comes to Wilson ...