Genre: Drama
Released: 2007
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About the Movie
Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller, The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Her students had been written off, and her chances of succeeding scoffed at, but Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) wasn't about to go down without a fight. Long Beach is a place where a new war is waged with each passing day, and when the hardened students who walk those dangerous hallways sense an outsider attempting to understand their plight, their cynical resentment threatens to keep a deadly cycle in motion. Despite the initially hostile reaction she receives in the classroom, Gruwell uses the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo to teach her students not only the basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well. Later, when the time comes to tell their own tales in a project specially designed to explore the daily violence that the majority of students have grown numb to, the barriers that had once stood so strong gradually begin to crumble. When the only chance for survival is to befriend the person who was once your mortal enemy, the world is opened to a whole new realm of possibilities.
剧情简介
　　爱林（希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank饰）从事的第一份教育工作，就是在威尔逊学校一个糟糕透顶的班级里担任老师。这里有着给老师们带来噩梦的学生：他们虚度光阴，消磨时辰，把学校当成18岁之前的游乐场；更混乱的是，学生们来自社会里的不同种族和各类底层阶级，分帮结派互相斗殴。
　　爱林想方设法让仇恨远离孩子们的心，消解他们之间的敌意，可是，作为一名白人老师，孩子们对她树起了重重心墙，爱林的教育理想在现实中一次又一次地碰壁。
　　孩子们跌入深渊的心灵是否无药可救，他们的未来能否在爱林的循循教导下重现曙光，爱林的肩上承着千斤重担，她只有一本或者可以感化孩子的《安妮日记》，以及一颗热忱真诚的心，带领迷失的孩子找到明灯。
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