Freedom Writers (2007) poster
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Freedom Writers

CrimeDrama

Directed by Richard LaGravenese

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school. From TMDB

69 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 10, 2026 · How this works

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Freedom Writers is a 2007 crime drama film, directed by Richard LaGravenese, starring Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey and Scott Glenn.

  • 60 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon
  • posts span Jul 30, 2023 to Oct 3, 2026

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  • Pyra🎃 @iimooglecx.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    Just grinding Sonic while watching random movies on YouTube. Im watching Freedom Writers as my background noise. Pretty good movie so far

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  • ACO @nintyfan1991.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2025

    I'm doing a boycott of damn near anything Paramount. I love me some SpongeBob, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, and the Sonic the Hedgehog movies. But anything of those? I'm buying second hand like I did the Freedom Writers movie. I can't support them after what they did to Stephen Colbert.

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  • Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.appBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    Freedom Writers is the only movie I’ll never be tired of watching and has me crying because some shit is relatable.

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  • Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    For LA Times (De Los), I talked to Mexican American filmmaker Giselle Bonilla about her feature debut, the dark comedy THE MUSICAL, about her first acting role in the 2007 film FREEDOM WRITERS, and putting her Mexican immigrant parents in her movies🇲🇽🇺🇸 Read here: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

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  • schipelblorp @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 1, 2026

    On Love and Treason: Critical White Feminist Thought for Social Justice Praxis. tl;dr: I did not understand then, but I understand now how my life is built upon her suffering. She is systematically marginalized to do low-wage, unstable work that affords me the ability to purchase services, products, and a lifestyle because of race/gendered/class/citizenship privilege. The managing of palliative solutions to her problems also created a career for me. What I did not understand was my own…

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  • ACO @nintyfan1991.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched My Del Toro Hellboy marathon got derailed, but Freedom Writers is a great and poignant film especially today.

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  • Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    youtu.be/dPoi4hktrJQ?... Obviously this movie is problematic but I keep thinking about Eva's rant about white people in Freedom Writers. "You hate me? You don't even know me. " "I KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO. "

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  • Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    I’m watching Freedom Writers. An old film that I’ve never seen before. It’s fantastic

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  • Jillbill @jillbill.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    Every teacher I know has a teacher movie they love. "Dangerous Minds", ""Lean on Me", "Stand and Deliver" or "Freedom Writers" are what I usually hear. My teacher movie is "Sunmer School". He just wants to connect with his students and is all about their growth.

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  • Quira/Neptune but it’s Spooky szn @quirabb.blacksky.appBluesky · May 14, 2025

    Idk we need a “roll out the big back tv” day at work. But unlike at school it’s not to watch the white savior movie The Help/The Blind Side/Freedom Writers

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  • Peter RETRO Palmiotti @peter-palmiotti.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2025

    Watched Freedom Writers for the first time. I love Hilary Swank but for some reason thought this was about poetry. I was way off. Great movie, even more so because it was true. This is what teachers can be! And not only in the extreme case either. Powerful!

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  • Ladybug @ladybug4231.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    I was watching the movie, “Freedom Writers” tonight and it inspired me. If we could get thousands of people to write letters, stamped letters of how we feel about what is happening and send them to representatives around the country, this would impact our world.

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  • Larry brown @ticktockdaddy49.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2024

    i couldn't stay focused on the movie Ghost in the shell. Just watched Freedom Writers which came on immediately after and could not take my mind and eyes off it! Great movie!

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  • suicidezeroboy.bsky.social @suicidezeroboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    We really counting Freedom Writers? That film is white as hell in how it presents it's story.

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  • ACO @nintyfan1991.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    There was also the LA Riots. Hell, it was a theme in the non-fiction film, Freedom Writers (from pre-MAGA Paramount), which was based on a true story of Erin Gruwell and her students. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miz1...

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  • ACO @nintyfan1991.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2026

    "90s was 'peak normalcy'" with race relations? Freedom Writers disagrees. That film even had archive footage of the LA race riots.

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  • Kewpie 🍼🖍️🌈 @kewpieart.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    (1/2) I suddenly just remembered the movie Freedom Writers. It's a movie where a white woman becomes an English teacher at an inner city high school full of people of color and teaches them to write about their feelings or something?? and one point in the movie she dead ass

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  • Freedom Forall Earth @ffaearth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    Anyone familiar with this film based on a true story? I suggest you take the time. 'Freedom Writers' youtu.be/-8yKSbdDens?...

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  • oldladylife.bsky.social @oldladylife.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    WTH is up with the Pluto App? I guess because it’s free they can just totally suck now. 6 commercials every 3 min break. Knocks you out of a movie you’re watching, shoots you to another movie. Maybe Paramount just doesn’t like the movie Freedom Writers, too woke. Thanks Paramount

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  • LP @301boogie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    This song always reminds me of the movie Freedom Writers

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  • x.GIGGLE.x @xgigglex.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    🎬Today in #FilmHistory🎬 "Freedom Writers" (2007) was released. The film is written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and is based on teacher Erin Gruwell's book The Freedom Writers Diary. #OTD

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  • THE UK BASE @theukbase.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    18 years ago, 'Freedom Writers' was released. The film featured R&B Singer, Mario. What is your favourite moment from the film? #FilmSky

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  • Just_CJ @cjwizgeek.blacksky.appBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    Fake news cause Freedom Writers ain't even a black movie. That's a white savior movie lol But yeah 47 for me.

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  • thee black-canadian taeddie bear @taeddie.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2024

    The movie is Freedom Writers and will.i.am was responsible of the OST. youtu.be/iJG-40L3-PM?...

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  • Mischief ✨🔮 @mischiefk2.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2024

    13. Favorite Movie is The Freedom Writers!

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  • Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇪🇺🇬🇧 @sirtomnobluetick.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2023

    Pat. I've found a film that'll be right up your street. Based on a true story. 'Freedom Writers'. Netflix. The Holocaust survivors featured in the film were genuine.

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  • Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2023

    Today's Mary Worth quotevestigation: the quote from Miep Gies (who sheltered Anne Frank) turns out to be from the "Miep Gies" character in the 2007 white-savior film Freedom Writers starring Hilary Swank. And a *lot* of mainstream news sources repeat it as authentic. Oh well. @jfruh.bsky.social

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  • Extremely Haunted @extremelyuncanny.comBluesky · Jul 30, 2023

    We had to watch the movie for my education classes along with the Hillary Swank white savior vehicle Freedom Writers

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  • Alex Mohawk @alexmohawk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    I saw the movie "Freedom Writers" and it was inspiring! No matter what was thrown at those kids, they kept writing and that is powerful!! I wanna buy their book and read their stories

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  • Aaliyah🦋 @liyahmwemezi.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    I just finished watching Freedom Writers again for the first time in many years and this is what I feel is missing right now in film. What happened to the movies that actually told a story that meant something? We used to have so many movies of true stories and it seems like all that went away

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  • Saab Lofton @saablofton69.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    "When I asked another honors teacher why we don't read more black literature, she said, 'we don't read black literature because of all the sex, drugs, cussing and fornication.'" --from the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers clip.cafe/freedom-writ...

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  • nai 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.appBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    Sinners Blue Streak Bride of Chucky Seed of Chucky Shrek Shrek 2 Mr. Church Dreamgirls Kill Bill (Vol. 1 and 2) Tom and Jerry: The Movie First Sunday Aquamarine Soul The Princess and the Frog Julie and Julia Searching Freedom Writers Dumb and Dumber Bruce Almighty Colombiana Salt Lucy

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  • JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.teamBluesky · Mar 18, 2026

    Like that movie, Freedom Writers and V For Vendetta was the trifecta for teachers at all of my schools. 😭

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  • Todday @todday.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2026

    Freedom Writers? The book assignment movie? A black movie? I’m sorry, I have to reject this nonsense lol

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  • Clay Ammentorp @claystripe.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    That is a long and complicated story that won't fit in a skeet, but it also involves the teacher Hilary Swank played in Freedom Writers, promo for a Netflix film that does not exist, and nearly getting arrested for playing basketball in a driveway.

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  • Yearnathan @aangseyeity.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    Okay I'm peeking into my stuff rn: The Lovebirds The Gentlemen The Invisible Disturbia Atomic Blonde Civil War (not the marvel movie) The Drop The Proposal Stepmom A Time to Kill Snatch Ocean's 8 Perfect Stranger Untraceable Seven Unthinkable Freedom Writers

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  • Itakenaphere @itakenaphere.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Today’s movie review: Freedom Writers (2007) Another movie based on a true story which makes all of the emotional moments hit that much harder which they hit you hard! Acting was great and the soundtrack was brilliant! I loved this film and I’ll be getting the book 💕 9/10 Will watch again :)

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  • KPJ @woopling.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    Ok but does it make sense when i say there are “hotel room movies.” Freedom Writers is a hotel room movie.

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  • Jen 🖤 @justjennifer90.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    Alex: What's a movie you've seen more than six times? Me: Um, maybe Freedom Writers?? Alex: Is that like, one with mice?

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  • riohelmi @riohelmi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2025

    Wanting some relief from the tragic, hateful absurdity of US politics, I replayed an old movie, The Freedom Writers, based on a true story - an uplifting story of transformation within the crushing confines of a broken system. But coming back to today's rebreaking of lives it made me sadder.

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  • DJ | Brand & Web Design 🖤 @highstandards.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2024

    I love Freedom Writers but I would never consider that a Black movie lmao

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  • Marsh⁷ got baptized by Jin | 64.7k 🏙️ @ze-eternalmarsh.borasky.comBluesky · Nov 29, 2024

    The movie Freedom Writers? Make a similar plot but with disabled kids and YUP YOU HAVE MY MOM. THIS BITCH TOOK OFF HER HEELS AND RAN AFTER A KID ONCE. IN A PENCIL SKIRT. bro Im scared man, one day imma go home to France and fine KIM MOTHERFUCKING (literally) TAEHYUNG IN MY LIVING ROOM. SHE IS Y/N!+

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    The (movie) Freedom Writers 1080p (iTunes)(UK) £3.99 (Biography) (iMDB) 6.9 Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario

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  • Saab Lofton @saablofton69.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    "When I asked another honors teacher why we don't read more black literature, she said, 'we don't read black literature because of all the sex, drugs, cussing and fornication.'" --from the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers www.theguardian.com/books/2016/a...

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  • BOOST Collaborative @teamboost.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    We are excited to announce 2027 #boostconference Keynote Erin Gruwell! She is the educator behind The Freedom Writers Diary & film Freedom Writers. Her award-winning work with 150 students earned her a reputation for championing the future of education. boostconference.org/erin-gruwell

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  • Jiwoo @jiwoous.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    Put on Freedom Writers for background noise as I edit (cause I’ve seen the movie multiple times) and only got like 2 more minutes in the movie and mostly just ended up watching the movie lol

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2026

    The (movie) Freedom Writers 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Biography) (iMDB) 7.0 Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario

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  • baseball enjoyer @beachbeers.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    Back when the whole plane watched the same movie, me, another girl, and an older white business traveler in the same row were all captivated and sobbing over Freedom Writers

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  • Valeficent 🐍 The KDrama 🔌The Soulful Siren @thatgrlwitapen.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    Freedom Writers, not a Black Movie

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  • Scott Pfitzinger @pfitzinger.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    Movies released on January 5: Sadko (1953) Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) Born on the Fourth of July (1990) Quest of the Delta Knights (1994) Nixon (1996) Traffic (2001) Freedom Writers (2007) #movies 🎬 #anniversary #MST3K

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  • ACO @nintyfan1991.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    So... anyone remember the movie Freedom Writers? Based on Erin Gruwell and her students in early 90s California when racial tensions were flaring the most (invoked the 92 riots and everything)? Hadn't seen that movie since Highschool. My highschool had it on DVD and several of my classes showed it.

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  • BronxWorks @bronxworks.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 29, 2025

    Today for #HispanicHeritageMonth we recognize actor, motivational speaker, and author April Hernandez Castillo, best known for her role as Eva in the film Freedom Writers and a wonderful friend to BronxWorks. She and her daughter Summer Rose Castillo both appear in Brownsville Bred.

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    The (movie) Freedom Writers (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €3.99 Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario Genre: (Biography) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/freedom_wr...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2025

    The (movie) Freedom Writers (HD) is available today on (iTunes)(Australia) for AU$4.99 Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario Genre: (Biography) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/freedom_wr...

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  • George says @whateverhewants.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    Freedom Writers 2007 is a great movie 🍿 and very appropriate to watch with students these days.

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  • jabibo.bsky.social @jabibo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    Oh no now they’re trying to do a poor man’s Freedom Writers Netflix™️ edition where else will this movie go I’m excited and horrified

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  • persephone @jomaselli.caBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    Being a teacher in this century has been traumatic. It’s much more Half Nelson than it is Freedom Writers (& that movie is so fucking gross—white saviourism + female martyrdom). It’s much more being ground down by the machine than it is stopping the gears w our own bodies. We are up against too much

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    The (movie) Freedom Writers (HD) is available today on (Amazon)(UK) for £3.99 Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April L. Hernandez, Mario Genre: (Biography) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/freedom_wr...

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  • Sonlatsa @sonlatsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    One of my favorite films! 2007 movie "Freedom Writers" is based on a true story. The movie is about a teacher, Erin Gruwell, and her students at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The book "Freedom Writers Diary" was published in 1999. MUST WATCH 💗 #FreedomWriters

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  • Hackie Puffs @hackiepuffs.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    For my communications class we’re basing a lot of our work and material for this semester on a movie called Freedom Writers and after finishing the movie I just wanna spread the word about it because I feel like it’s messages are really needed in today’s society.

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