Will Morales Movies
Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller The Freedom Writer's Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Her students had been written off, and her chances of succeeding scoffed at, but Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) wasn't about to go down without a fight. Long Beach is a place where a new war is waged with each passing day, and when the hardened students who walk those dangerous hallways sense an outsider attempting to understand their plight, their cynical resentment threatens to keep a deadly cycle in motion. Despite the initially hostile reaction she receives in the classroom, Gruwell uses the writings of Anne Frank and Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo to teach her students not only the basis of the English language, but compassion and tolerance as well. Later, when the time comes to tell their own tales in a project specially designed to explore the daily violence that the majority of students have grown numb to, the barriers that had once stood so strong gradually begin to crumble. When the only chance for survival is to befriend the person who was once your mortal enemy, the world is opened to a whole new realm of possibilities. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, (more)
The fates of five marijuana smoking New Yorkers intertwine after a man arrives from Wichita, Kansas in search of some weed, and a violent robbery proves that sometimes we are more closely connected to one another than we might admit. Directors Mike Hull and W. Axel Foley take the helm for this pulpy urban neo-noir story that opens as Aaron arrives in the Big Apple in search of some smoke. After securing a sack from small-time Tompkins Park dealer Indo, Aaron comes into contact with Bill, who in turn leads him to mid-level dope-man Carlos. Carlos gets his weed from Paula in the Bronx. Most of the time these five disparate souls would simply go their separate ways after the money changes hands and the customer is satisfied, but today fate has something different in store for this country-boy stoner and his city-dwelling dealers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- R. Ernie Silva, Aida Angotti, (more)
Hispanic director Vicente Aranda helms the psychodrama Celos (Jealousy - a penetrating character study of a man torn apart inside by a possessive rage. Daniel Gimenez-Cacho and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon co-star as Antonio and Carmen, marrieds-to-be whose future together begins to crumble before their eyes, when Antonio discovers a picture of Carmen with her former boyfriend. As Antonio digs into the past, relentlessly, in search of more information about the prior lover, his quest becomes a guiding force, and then, ultimately, an all-consuming obsession that threatens to destroy the sanctity and trust necessary for a stable relationship. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Galo, Will Morales, (more)
The underground world of graffiti art is at the center of this independent crime drama written, directed, photographed, edited, and produced by filmmaker Terrence Williams. Will Morales plays Mozart, a gifted artist who makes a name for himself in gangland South Central Los Angeles with his tagging skills. But after his brother is killed, Mozart decides to put away his spray paint and walk the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, one of his pals tempts him back into the troubled life he thought he'd left for good. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Will Morales
