![]() ![]() While struggling with the students, she has to deal at the same time with two complicated and demanding male relationships. She also attempts to get the four ethnic groups to come together by getting them to recognize what they have in common specifically, their music, their movies, their broken families, and their broken community surroundings. She encourages each of her students to keep a journal of their painful and difficult life, and then to share the journal with her. She slowly and painfully tries to teach by first learning about " the pain " the students feel. But our idealistic teacher will not give up. From day one, she doesn't fit in the classroom with these tough kids, and she doesn't fit in with the faculty, who have all but given up and resigned themselves to being the keepers of the student warehouse. She is very educated, pretty, middle class, non-ethnic, well-dressed, and smart. ![]() With this background, an idealistic teacher (Hilary Swank) arrives to teach Freshmen English. It is a warehouse for young teenagers until they can drop out or are kicked out. There isn't much teaching or learning going on at the school. The Asians, the Blacks, the Latinos, and a very few whites not only don't get along, but also stay with their own and are part of protective and violent gangs. The school is voluntarily integrated, and it isn't working. Woodrow Wilson High School is located in Long Beach, California. A Truly Moving Picture " explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life." Heartland gave that award to this film. I am one of the judges for the Heartland Film Festival's Truly Moving Picture Award. I saw this film on December 13th, 2006 in Indianapolis.
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