you gotta see this

I went to see "Freedom Wriers" at the Commerce (no free passes...hint hint) and want to recommend it to all of you. Yeah, it's another "Teacher changes kids lives" kind of fantasy, as a bunch of gang-banging, drug taking, pistol packing L.A. kids friom the 'hood --in one short year- learn to love school AND clean their lives up, but hey, you gotta have faith in the human spirit, don't you?
good acting, great cinematography, an all around nice film. There was an old T.V. series called "Welcom Back Kotter", staring a young John Travolta,that improbably had this bunch of comic "losers", the cool white kid, the goofy comic black string bean(dyn-o-mite!!), the sexy Puerto Rican (Mario what's hisname from dancing witht the stars) a foxy bimbo, a fat girl, etc who all actually pay attention to the teacher and say stupid things like"Hey, that Socretes guy, he REALLY was cool"...Not THAT was stupid. Freedom is a much more sosphisticated and kind of inspiring film. Again, the Camera work is great and the chatracterizations are generally awesome. The tight a_ _ department chair (ie: Hillary Swank's nemesis) will remind you of several teachers you've known.
here are my favorite quotes...they'll only be meaningful if yousee the film:
"Wherever you are, speak their names"
"I was home" ( I almost cried for this one!)
"YOU are the heroes"
"Paco shot him"
"I can SEE you...and I won't let you fail"
"nice pearls"