Profanity includes use of the 'N' word in a journal entry, and a dramatic use of 'f-k you.' While the movie is based on a true story, families should take the opportunity to discuss it in the context of the 'white savior narrative,' and how and why movies like these can be problematic as America comes to grips with the far-reaching effects of systemic racism. Students write about their losses in their journals, which the teacher reads out loud or in voiceover these scenes depict memories of shootings (including a young boy accidentally shooting himself and dying on a park bench), and domestic abuse. Students discuss the Holocaust, Anne Frank, and meet a survivor who describes her ordeal. Kids argue with each other, including a scene in which characters use racial slurs to describe Asians. Gang violence, loss of a friend or family member, and the Holocaust are addressed. One of the characters is shown getting beaten up in a gang initiation. Characters are killed in drive-by shootings. The movie is set in a Long Beach, California high school in the mid-1990s against the backdrop of deep racial tensions in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating by police officers. While slightly predictable, FREEDOM WRITERS critiques the public education system in an ultimately moving way.Parents need to know that Freedom Writers is a 2007 movie in which Hilary Swank plays an idealistic young white teacher who inspires a group of 'at-risk' students of color to believe in themselves. But writer/director Richard LaGravenese manages to put a fresh spin on this already familiar formula thanks to powerful performances by Hillary Swank, Imelda Staunton, and several newcomers. Thanks to a catalogue of films including STAND AND DELIVER and DANGEROUS MINDS, any film about inspiring teachers risks feeling redundant and preachy. The intensity with which Erin relates to her work threatens her husband (Patrick Dempsey), who in seeing Erin's transformation, is reminded of his own stagnancy. Meanwhile, a strain is put on Erin's marriage as her student involvement gradually takes priority over her personal life. Despite being up against unthinkable violence, devoted first-time teacher Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank) never gives up, slowly bonding with her class of at-first unreachable pupils, breaking down their tough exteriors and getting at the real people beneath through requiring the students keep daily journals.

While never having heard of the Holocaust, these kids are well-versed in the pain of poverty, the legal system, and death. Rather than having the desired effect of creating healthy diversity, this program breeds constant war between all parties involved, the result being daily gun shots, constant racial slurs, and gang violence.Played largely by young unknowns, the freshman class in question is both naïve and wise beyond its years. Located in gang-ravaged Long Beach, California, Woodrow Wilson High is a hotbed of violence due to a voluntary integration program which brings Black, Latino, Asian, and White students together. riots, FREEDOM WRITERS is the story of an idealistic teacher's attempts to make a difference in the lives of her at-risk students. Based on actual diary accounts of several teenagers following the L.A.

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