A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Freedom Writers is of 2 hour(s) and 3 minute(s). It is Produced By: Double Feature Films, Jersey Films, Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company. It was released on 2007-01-05. It has the tagline: Their story. Their world. Their future. It has an average vote of 7.914 on TMDB.
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