Hilary Swank

Freedom Writers Film Review But even an ordinary secretary Or a housewife or a teenager Can, within their own small ways, Turn on a small light in a dark room. - Miep Gies Just like how Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) turned the lights on, in the dark room of 203. Freedom Writers is a film inspired by students of Woodrow Wilson High School as they experience the aftermath of LA riots. Los Angeles resembles a war zone back in the 1992. During this time in America, it all comes down to what a person look

Hilary Swank’s character, Erin Gruwell, from The Freedom Writers said, “I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world” (“Erin Gruwell Quotes”). According to The New York Times, Freedom Writers was written in 1999 and made into a film in 2007 and it was directed by Richard LaGravenese starring Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Margaret Campbell, Scott Glenn, and many others (Dargis). Freedom Writers is set in Long Beach

A Big Apple native born October 30, 1959, LaGravense grew up in Brooklyn and studied acting at New York University’s experimental theater department at the Tisch School of Arts. As a student, he explored his skills with dialogue and formed a New York based comedy group, for which he also wrote sketches. His sketch material led to an offer by former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Levy, to co-write the script for the 1989 release, Rude Awakening. He wrote (and sold) his first piece of writing for

story. The movie, The Freedom Writers, fulfills that happy ending along with being a true story. The Freedom Writers was first a book made by Erin Gruwell in 1999 and turned into a movie in 2007, directed by Richard LaGravenese. The movie starred Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, and multiple other people (“Full Cast & Crew”). These actors and actresses were able to portray the book into a movie very well. The movie starts when a first year teacher is put into a classroom with children

Freedom Writers, directed by Richard LaGravenese, is a true story about the legendary class 203 of Woodrow Wilson High School. With the help of first-time teacher Erin Gruwell, who is portrayed through actress Hilary Swank, the class of misfits and outcasts discover life in a new light, and they learn to join together as one against the world instead of many (“Freedom Writers”). The touching story sends the message that anything is achievable if one has the right mindset and determination for it

Rhetorical Analysis: Freedom Writers The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class, varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds, wants nothing more than to just get through the day. African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gang members, and much more are from poor neighborhoods, that all share

ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.” The 2007 film Freedom Writers, based on the 1999 novel The Freedom Writers Diary, includes many well-known celebrities including Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, and Mario and was directed by Richard LaGravensee (Dargis). The motion picture gives viewers a look into Erin Gruwell’s freshman and sophomore English classes at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Gruwell, a

Million Dollar Baby Throughout this course we have discussed about making good and bad decisions in life. In grade 12 curriculum we have watched a movie called A Million Dollar baby cast by Clint Eastwood as an Frankie Dunn (coach), Hilary Swank as an Maggie Fitzgerald (female boxer) and Morgan Freeman Eddie "Scrap Iron"(gym keeper). In this movie Eastwood has shown in his movie a story about a struggling life of boxers and coach. In this movie an actor and director is playing a role as

being brought to light. Freedom Writers, a 2007 movie adaptation of the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary (Freedom Writers), illustrates just how large an issue racism is in society. Freedom Writers was directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Patrick Dempsey, and Imelda Staunton (Freedom Writers). Set in Long Beach, California, a first-time teacher educates her at-first unmotivated students in English while giving them life lessons and showing them the larger world around

realization of dreams. The movie explores many different subject matters. Million Dollar Baby is about friendship and respect. It is about love and it is about dreams. The main theme of the movie is the boxing career of Maggie Fitzgerald (played by Hilary Swank) - a 30-year old waitress who lives alone and barely gets by. However, she