<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $43.1 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Freedom Writers is a 2007 film starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey . </P> <P> It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California . The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace . The title is a play on the term "Freedom writers", referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961 . </P> <P> The idea for the film came from journalist Tracey Durning, who made a documentary about Erin Gruwell for the ABC News program Primetime Live . Durning served as co-executive producer of the film . The film was dedicated to the memory of Armand Jones (1), who was killed after wrapping up Freedom Writers . He was 18 and was shot to death in Anaheim, California after a confrontation with a man who robbed Jones of a necklace in a Denny's restaurant . </P>

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