White teacher helps urban kids with self-esteem fantasy cinema

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Dangerous Minds, Half Nelson, Music from the Heart, To Sir With Love....

And now....

Freedom Writers!

How awful does this look?

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index1.html

Freedom Writers
Copyright © 2007 Paramount Pictures

Erin Gruwell’s passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers who hate her even more than each other. When Erin begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that for these kids, getting through the day alive is enough they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting a war of the streets that began long before they were born. Erin gives them something they never had from a teacher before respect.
In Theatres: January 12th, 2007

Drama
Rating: PG-13

Richard LaGravenese (dir.)
Hilary Swank
Patrick Dempsey
Scott Glenn
Imelda Staunton
April Lee Hernandez

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 21 October 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

So, scott glenn plays the troubled urban teen who just needs to learn to believe in himself?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 October 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember Sidney Poitier whiting-up for To Sir With Love.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Saturday, 21 October 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I get the feeling the line "Shakespeare is a lot like Tupac" is gonna be in this.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Saturday, 21 October 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why is there link going to a an old Salon interview that has nothing to do with this thread?

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 October 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Needs more Edward James Olmos.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Ju don undistan what i's like ou' heah! Ju probly gotta nice white pickett fence wit a nice doggie an kids an shit, so don' be tryina tell me what I needa do! (sucks teeth and jerks head)"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Erin Gruwell’s passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 21 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Erin Gruwell’s passion to become a gangbanger is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian teachers

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Erin Gruwell's passion to become a porn star is soon challenged by her first gangbang scene with a group of Black, Latino and Asian actors.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

A group of Black, Latino, and Asian porn stars' passion to become Erin Gruwel is soon challenged by a teacher

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Saturday, 21 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Erin Gruwell’s ~~passion~~ fantasy to become a ~~teacher~~ messiah is soon challenged by ~~a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers~~ reality

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

whups:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/freedomwriters/

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 22 October 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I was OTM about the straight-talkin' latina girl 'splainin shit.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 22 October 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

(To Sir With Love was meant as a joke.)

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Imelda Staunton plays the latino gangbanger I assume. She's in danger of getting typecast.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kfcplainfield.com/tv/room2222.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

thank god there are white people to bring peace to all this senseless racism

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I actually worked in a school where the majority of teachers were middle-class white teachers, and the students were inner city minority. It was a little awkward, and the students certainly didn't find the teachers inspirational (at least not in the Hollywood sense).

Students call male teachers "mister", which is pretty much standard in NYC public schools, but sounded odd somehow. "Hey, mister! Can you help me with this?"

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Prezbo

(sorry but it had to be said)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 23 October 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

i hope there's a subplot where patrick dempsey delivers pizzas and has sex with a bunch of hott rich women.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I had an intro to teacher education class where all we did the whole semester was watch and analyse these. Mr. Holland's Opus, Dead Poet's Society, whatever the one was, oh it was recent, had some prick in it...they're all interchangable. WTF at those movies and my prof.

WTF at Dangerous Minds especially. Teaching kids the meanings of different parts of speech isn't exactly preparing kids to analyze poetry like she claims. Remember when it was a short-lived TV series starring Annie Potts?

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

whatever the one was, oh it was recent, had some prick in it...they're all interchangable.

finding forrester?

― cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Does Stand and Deliver fit into this category?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 23 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Finding Forrester was hilarious. But no. KEVIN KLINE, that is the prick I'm thinking of, and it turns out the film was The Emperor's Club.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

stand and deliver is the template, but edward james olmos is cleverly non-white

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

remember, Finding Forrester helped birth http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

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