Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Wide screen. Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton.
Summary:
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them.
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