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So many reviews here I just want to add a few points. First, allow me to qualify, I am a LB Wilson graduate and attended K-12 in the LBUSD. LBUSD was integrated a very, very long time before this teacher taught for a few years. That aside, it is racist to assert that integration had anything to do with the problems at LB Wilson. It was my experience that integration enriched my experience. The problems asserted in this film were fictional. LB Wilson is ofter referred to as the "gem of the district." It is a great and beautiful HS in the Belmont Heights neighborhood (which is adjacent to Belmont Shore). So this ghetto theme they were passing off is a lie.

Rudy was a fun movie - I've seen it many times. But it was filled with lies. But it is fun so I can live with the Rudy Ruettiger exaggerations. In other words, I can overlook serious gaps in truth or logic if they're replaced with great writing, scenery and acting. Freedom Writers failed in every regard. That is, Freedom Writers delivered the lies and nothing else. It is my suspicion that a publicist was hard at work spinning this story.

I watched only 30 minutes before pulling the disk - I couldn't stand anymore. Speaking of standing, if you want to watch an inspirational movie about public school teaching in under-served areas of Los Angeles, watch Stand and Deliver. Jaime Escalante's multi-decade teaching career offers substantially more credibility over a teacher that lasted a couple or few years.

Why is everyone so vocal about this formulaic trash? Let's think a moment: What drives the film "industry"? Okay, we know it isn't the public welfare. You can rule out innovative plots, too. The truth doesn't carry any weight, either. Must be... Anyway, when something re-hashed, pre-chewed, and half-digested comes out of Hollywood, just follow the money trail. Hilary Swank is "hot" this week, so she has to do the "serious" film to keep the public satisfied with her minimal talent, because the trailer says so. So go see "Freedom Writers" (god, I love that title!) and listen to the Oscar buzzzzzz... Idealistic teachers will get weepy at this movie, because it speaks to their self-image as underpaid martyrs, while impressionable teenagers will buy into notion that minorities are unable to help themselves without a white savior to do it in public schools. This film falls right in the middle of the tried and proved Hollywood path, and in the same ruts.

Gag me with a syrupy liberal politically do-goody spoon. Not a single thing new here. Here comes white swank to save the fussed up middle school full of single-parent black kids that ain't bad kids except that swank make them feel like scum and then attempts her honky voodoo. Feeling empowered by four years of an idiot education in a private pay-as-you-go college, the airhead has allusions that her mission is to bring these boys up to expect to achieve her socio-economic station in life when they need a mother and a father that love then and support them and to whom they can express their dreams and not some pastry white air-head teacher who will be married and pregnant in two years and will only remember the boys when she has sweet soirées with other teacher-mothers at Tuesday get-together at Starbucks.

I cannot believe that movies like this are still being made. Shame on all the bloody bastards who wasted money to make this awful propaganda film.

The premise is extremely offensive, and any attempt to make the movie original make it even more distasteful. White teacher turns wayward minority kids, who obviously cant do anything in their communities, and it is her "White Man's Burden", to civilize these woeful street urchins. But of course, I mean, what if they actually have to become respectable people without the aid of the cliché "trying to make a change" teacher.

It completely spits into the face of real-life urban life, and the fact that crime, vandalism, all these things are a part, but not dominant forces in urban life. It IS Possible for someone who is a minority, and grew up in a urban area to NOT need the help of the "oh-so successful bourgeios". THis film is a disgrace, an utter disgrace and affront to working class poor, and the general oppressed urban minority in the United States.

This is the incarnation of the guilt of the Whites for having marginalized these groups of people, and classifying them, forever in time immemorial, as urban street thugs who care about nothing more than vices. Please for the love of all thats good, do not be fooled by the "movie by numbers", "urban kids are inferior, and oh so retarded without the help of the bourgeois", and laughable attempt at creating a change.

This is one of a long list of failures in the formulaic, and I think intentional destruction of the last shred of dignity the working class in America has. Shame on you Hollywood, for bowing to creating propaganda.

Shame on Hollywood for creating these types of films. I feel like they are trying to send a message that black students are just not smart and to succeed they need a white teacher to help motivate them.

There have be quite a few TV shows and movies from Dangerous Minds to Freedom Writers. Hollywood you are furthering the educational divide by capturing this on film that for black students your future is set unless you have a white teacher other wise you will become a statistic.

Most of the society already thinks this of them, then why do you keep furthering that. There is almost like a subliminal message with all of these films and TV shows: They don't care about their education. They are a lost cause. They could care less about their future. They are just not smart so why bother.

Whether Hollywood means to push these types of messages it is an underlining message associated with them.

This film has no artistic value at all. It is simply a "PC" money-making project.

I had hoped that Hillary Swank would focus her academy award winning cache on an inventive selection of projects, and the refinement of her art. But apparently, she just wants to be a cool Hollywood celeb.

*yawn*

(Hmm...now that I think about it, maybe she wasn't ALL that good in Boy's Don't Cry.)

The reason I feel this way is that this movie teaches us nothing new about the human condition (like all good art should). We all know that human beings suffer hardships in their lives; and this movie gives tacit approval to a dog-eat-dog way of dealing with hardship. The challenge this movie offers seems to be this: "If you can bring yourself to swear off murder, you're a hero."

huh??

A more inspiring theme would have been: "If you can find the COURAGE, build a life for yourself, step-by-step."

Horrifyingly bad. The movie is the 25th installment of the "white person teaches inner city students" theme. And, while no one should trivialize the plight of these kids, there's only so much territory to cover. There's not even one scene in the movie that you haven't seen before. The writing is atrocious and the direction is beyond-belief awful. One has to wonder about Hillary Swank. Two-time Academy Award winning actress and attractive to boot; yet chooses bad material between awards with uncanny reliability. Hyphenate director/writer, Richard LaGravenese, has yet to show any real skill as a writer and has no ability behind the camera whatsoever.