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GOLD! It'll make you cry! Marcus - No, that don't fly Ma. Erin Gruwell - First of all I'm not anybody's mother. Andre - No, that's not what it means. Eva - It's a sign of respect... for you.
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Hilary Swank
Patrick Dempsey
Scott Glenn
Imelda Staunton
April Lee Hernández
Mario Dewar Barrett
Jason Finn
Vanetta Smith
Antonio Garcia
Gabriel Chavarria
Hunter Parrish
Giovonnie Samuels
Deance Wyatt
John Benjamin Hickey
Robert Wisdom
Pat Carroll
Will Morales
Sergio Montalvo
It is based on the 1999 book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell and students who compiled the book out of real diary entries about their lives that they wrote in their English class at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California. The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace. The title of the movie and book is a play on the term "Freedom Riders", referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961.
