Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)(TV)
Ellen Page as: Young Lisa
Other Cast: Thora Birch, Michael Riley, Robert Bockstael, Makyla Smith, Kelly Lynch, Jennifer Pisana
Production Status: Released
Release Date: April 7, 2003 (USA)
Directed By: Peter Levin
Screenwriters: Ronni Kern
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Studio: Barnet Bain Films, Metafilmics, Patriarch Pictures Inc.
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Synopsis
The daughter of a loving but extremely dysfunctional Bronx family, Liz Murray, is weighed down with a coke-addict father and an HIV-infected mother. She spends her early years shuttling from squalid apartment to public shelter and back again.
At 15, she breaks away from her home life (what there is of it) and takes to the streets. Only after the death of her mother does Liz develop the determination to better her lot in life. Virtually begging her way back into high school, she becomes a superb student, and at 19, with funding from a scholarship and a part-time job with the New York Public Interest Group, "born loser" Liz enters Harvard University.
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Trivia & Facts
° Filming Locations: • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (view)
° Awards: Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys, 2 other nominations & 1 win (view)
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