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Freedom Writers

Summary: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
Runtime: 2 h 03 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 21,000,000
Domestic: $ 36,605,602
International: $ 6,489,573
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to chinareference to christmasreference to collegereference to eldridge cleaverreference to europereference to frank bonhamreference to godreference to golfreference to h. rap brownreference to high school graduationreference to homer's the odysseyreference to isieux ain francereference to italyreference to jim zwergreference to juveniie hallreference to latasha harlinsreference to montgomery alabamareference to nikes the shoesreference to paris francereference to prisonreference to reginald dennyreference to rodney kingreference to selling brasreference to shakespeare's romeo and julietreference to snoop doggreference to teenage pregnancyreference to tennisreference to the anne frankfoundationreference to the black panthersreference to the civil rights movementreference to the color purple the novelreference to the death of a boyreference to the freedom ridereference to the freedom writers foundationreference to the gestaporeference to the holocaustreference to the night of broken glassreference to the rosetta stonereference to tijuana mexicoreference to tupac shakurreference to twelve angry men the bookreference to wonder breadreference to world war tworefrence to a traitorrefugeerepeated scenerespectrestaurantriotroll callrunning for one's liferunning teenage boyrunning teenage girlschoolschool field tripschool integrationschoolteacherschoolyardseat beltshootingshootoutsimon wiesenthal center los angelessister sister relationshipsong lyricssparkling ciderspray paintstreet gangsubtitled scenesuitcasesurvivaltape decktattooed number on armteacherteacher as protagonistteacher student relationshipteachers' loungeteenage boyteenage boy wears a baseball cap backwardsteenage girlteenage girl wears overallstelephonetelephone calltelephone messagetenuretesticles slurtestimonytext on screenthe diary of a young girl the bookthe freedom writers story the bookthreat to killthrowing away a guntimeframe 1990stimeframe 20th centurytirednesstransformational 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