Trivia for
Freedom Writers (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Early prints were released under the title 'Maggie'.
  
  
• At the hotel dinner for the kids, after their trip to the Holocaust museum, all of the Holocaust survivor characters are played by actual Holocaust survivors.
  
  
• Hilary Swank beat out her co-star in this movie, Imelda Staunton, for the 2005 Oscar for Best Actress.
  
  
• This is the second time that Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey have been together in a film; the first was for Iron-Jawed Angels.
  
  
• The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles is featured in the film. Gruwell takes the students on a field trip to the museum. An exterior view of the museum is shown, and there are scenes inside the museum, showing simulated entrances to gas chambers in death camps.
  
  
• Part of the movie was filmed at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles.
  
  
• Based on the book called "The Freedom Writers Diary" by Erin Gruwell and the kids of Wilson High.
  
  
• Vanetta Smith, who played the student Brandy, was on the show Endurance (TV Series) in its third season. Her team placed 5th out of 8.
  
  

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