Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)

104 min · Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film

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Directors

Peter Levin

Cast

Thora Birch, Michael Riley, Robert Bockstael, Makyla Smith, Kelly Lynch, Jennifer Pisana, Aron Tager, Elliot Page, Marla McLean, Marguerite McNeil, Amber Godfrey, Seamus Morrison, Mauralea Austin, Cecil Wright

The story

Liz Murray grows up in a dysfunctional home in The Bronx with her sister, Lisa, and drug-addicted parents who contracted HIV from shared needles. Their mother Jean is schizophrenic and nearly blind, and their father Peter Finnerty is intelligent but lacks social skills and conscientiousness. He watches Jeopardy!

Catalogue themes and tags

AIDS, Absent Mother, Alcohol, Beggar, Begging, Drug Abuse, Drugs, Elend, Famine, Fellow Student, Geldnot, Harvard University, High School Komödie, Homeless Person, Homelessness, Loss of Mother, Mother, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Poverty, School Grade, Schulmädchen, Socially Deprived Family, Straßenkids, Tramp, Melodrama, Biography, Drama, Biopic [feature], Television movie

Genres

Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, drama film

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