| Overall: | A- |
|---|---|
| Violence: | C- |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B- |
| Run Time: | 123 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 16 Apr 2007 |
| MPAA Rating: | |
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Freedom Writers is rated PG-13: for violent content, some thematic material and language
Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey
Studio: ? Paramount Pictures
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In the early 1990s, an undeclared war claims countless lives and devastates unnumbered families in Los Angeles neighborhoods. Armed with guns, gangs of youths -- Hispanic, Asian, Black and White---…
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Why Is Freedom Writers Rated PG-13?
Living in gang-run neighborhoods, the students in Ms. Gruwell’s freshman English class (along with the…
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Talk It Over
The students’ personal diaries give them a chance to record their feelings and experiences. How…
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
