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I've seen interviews of the actual teacher and her students being portrayed in this movie years ago on TV, and last year she came to my school district to give a speech.

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OMG I am seeing this tonight and these reviews make me wanna see it more! The Anne Frank plot is appealing I will admit that...

BTW..Breathe Me by Sia?
 
Bumping to let people know that if anyone is interested Hilary Swank is on The View today talking about the film.

I'm looking forward to seeing what she has to say about playing the teacher. Plus, shes' just such a cool actress.
 
I like these kinds of movies, anyway but this one looks kind of different since it does look like it focuses on all the things the kids end up doing to change their lives, I think. And I think part of the reason that there a lot of movies on this kind of subject matter is that it really always is still relevant, unfortunately. (I always kinda wanted to be a teacher because of stories like that, even though I ended up not doing it.)

Also I just saw that Patrick Dempsey is in it. I love him! Hilary Swank is an amazing actress, too. I bet they will be good performing together.
 
It seems like there is always a movie that comes out every few years that deals with the exact same issues.

With Hilary in the lead I might have to watch it--in the hopes that it might be just a bit different then the other 100 movies just like it.
 
I haven't heard that much about this movie yet - but from what I've seen, it looks pretty interesting. To me it sort of looks like a great twist on Dangerous Minds, and it looks really uplifting.

I checked out the YouTube channel that's connected to the movie - it's a really nice idea of letting people express themselves about social issues like those in the movie.

Anybody know anything about this? It seems worth looking into, for sure. (I think it is based on a true story?)
 
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