Watch: Homeless to Harvard (Based on the true story of Liz Murray)

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Synopsis:

It is about the story of a homeless girl named Liz Murray on her journey to Harvard University. Liz Murray is one of two daughters of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. She is born to poor and drug-addicted parents, both of whom would later contract HIV. Her father is quite intelligent and watches Jeopardy! and knows all the answers. As a young girl, Murray lives with her sister, their drug-addicted, schizophrenic mother, and their father. She is removed from the home and put into the care system as her father cannot take care of her. 

At 15 she moves in with her mother, sister, and grandfather who sexually abused her mother and her aunt. After a run-in with her grandfather, she runs away with a girl from school who is being abused at home. After her mother Jean Murray dies of AIDS, which she got from sharing needles during her drug abuse, she gets a 'slap in the face' by her mother's death and begins her work to finish high school, which she amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She is awarded a New York Times scholarship for needy students and is accepted into Harvard University.

After the movie and Present:

Liz Murray is now one of the best motivational speakers and Authors of the international best selling book "Breaking Night". After leaving Harvard in 2003 to care for her ailing father, Liz Murray returned to the university in 2006 and graduated in June 2009. As of August 2009, she began taking graduate courses at Harvard Summer School with plans to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology and become a counselor. In August 2009, she began taking graduate courses at Harvard Summer School with plans to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology and become a counselor. She is the founder and director of Manifest Living and a motivational speaker.

She is a recipient of the Alex Awards in 2011. Alex Awards is given out every year to the Book Writer who focuses on Adult books with "special appeal" for adolescents.

She is currently living in the United State of America with her husband James and their two children.

Editor(s):  Anita Brandt-Burgoyne

Written by: Ronni Kern

Directed by: Peter Levin

Starring :

                 Thora Birch (as Liz Murray)

                 Michael Riley  (as Liz's Father)           

                 Robert Bockstael

                 Makyla Smith (as Liz's Sister)

                 Kelly Lynch ( as Liz's Mother)

Theme music composer: Louis Febre