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Value for Money	4/10
Overall rating	3/10

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By Tania on 23rd Jul 2007

Tania's Ratings

Starring Actor/Actress	Hilary Swank
Where Did You See It?	DVD
Value for money	4/10
Overall value	3/10
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Do not waste two hours of your life watching Freedom Writers. I took a chance on this DVD thinking that it may still deliver despite ones initial suspicions that the plot would be something of a cliche. Wrong. Deluded rookie teacher determined to change lives gets an unwelcome reception from class in ghetto school but eventually wins pupils over. It's been done before and no doubt it will be done again; and my is it obvious. To it's credit, it is loosely based on actual events; however I'm guessing the similarities start and end there.

I won't bother going into the plot as you get the jist, just suffice to say that it fulfilled my expectations as a wishy washy version of Dangerous Minds.

I'm guessing Swank meant to be irritating as a naive twinset and pearl clad twenty something teacher with a fixed toothy smile; if so she did a pretty good job. Other than that the plot lacked depth, none of the characters were developed well and it was clearly a Hollywood attempt at breezing over a gritty story. Lesson: don't trust films you've never heard of.

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