Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003) on Netflix
Liz Murray lives in a Bronx apartment with her sister Lisa and their drug-addicted parents. At fifteen she is homeless, and she decides to finish high school.
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Liz Murray grows up in a Bronx apartment with her sister Lisa and their parents, Jean and Peter Finnerty. Both parents are addicted to drugs and contracted HIV from shared needles. Jean is schizophrenic and almost blind, and Peter is intelligent but has few social skills and knows the answers to television quiz questions. The bathtub never drains, so Liz showers standing on an overturned bucket. She is removed from the home and placed in the care system. At fifteen she moves in with her grandfather Pops. When he hits her during a fight, she runs away with Chris, a classmate who was abused at home. Homeless at fifteen, Liz sets out to finish high school.
