Chil Kong 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)
- 2006
In the first episode of a two-part story, police officer Joe Luria (Scott Michael Campbell) begins laughing uncontrollably as he chases after a perpetrator--and continues to laugh even after he himself is shot! Though the gunshot won't kill him, Joe's acute euphoria may indeed prove fatal . . .especially after he goes blind. But House(Hugh Laurie) is less concerned with Joe than with his own colleague Foreman (Omar Epps), who suddenly begins exhibiting the same bizarre symptoms--just before Joe lapses into terminal unconsciousness! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2005
During this episode, the raft that Michael (Harold Perrineau) has been hard at work on goes up in flames, and accusations are flying as to who is responsible. Further insight into the marriage of Korean passengers Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yunjin Kim) is given via flashbacks showing the violent work that Jin had been doing for her father. When Sun reveals a secret to everyone that she has been keeping from even her husband, there may be unwanted consequences. Also, Sayid (Naveen Andrews) has something to tell Boone (Ian Somerhalder) about his sibling Shannon (Maggie Grace), and it may not be good news. In one of the flashback sequences, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) pops up on a TV screen -- but whose TV screen? And what is he doing on TV in the first place? ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Byron Chung, John Choi, (more)
