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The title kind of gives any modicum of suspense away, but the true story of Liz Murray, who pulled herself out of what was apparently an abysmal, drug-filled home life and went from living on the streets to attending Harvard, is nothing if not remarkable and inspiring. This made-for-cable version of her life, starring Thora Birch as a teenaged Murray, has the challenge of condensing Murray's whole life down to just 90 minutes, and in doing so invariably lends a typical layer of too-much-too-fast in the storytelling department.
It's a shame to short change the Murray like that, because her story is rather compelling. But anytime I watch a made-for-television movie based on a true story, my cynical blinders automatically pop up and I spend the whole time wondering what was made up using dramatic license, and what is the actual truth. I have no way to really know for sure with Homeless To Harvard: The Liz Murray Story, but I do know she's made the talk show rounds, so maybe you already know a whole lot more about her life than me.
In this Peter Levin-directed rendition, we first meet a 13-year-old Liz (played with natural ease by Jennifer Pisana), living in a filthy, cramped apartment with her older sister, and the added burden of a schizophrenic/druggie mom (Kelly Lynch) and brainy but drugged-addicted dad (Michael Riley). It's the kind of household where the mom regularly knocks her kids around trying to scare up some drug money, and where the family has to stand on an overturned bucket in the bathtub to shower because the tub is filled with dark, putrid water. Liz skips a lot of school, and though she's a smart kid, she can't avoid being pulled into the system, and she ends up a ward of the state, living in a violent teenage "group home".
By the time Birch takes over the role from Pisana, Liz has taken to living on the streets, struggling to distance herself from her long gone mom and her stoner dad, and she takes part in an alternative type of high school program. This all leads to the inevitable chance to try and win a scholarship to Harvard from The New York Times, again something the title of this one pretty much telegraphs before the first credit rolls by.
Birch delivers another strong, underrated performance as Murray, and she's the kind of talented actress that can make sullen and moody look natural without seeming forced. I'll admit I got drawn into the dramatic machinations story梱es, a Lifetime movie dragged me into its web梩hanks in part to Birch's performance, even if some of the secondary plotlines were filled with a few too many somber platitudes for my liking.
I applaud the real Liz Murray, though there is an odd coda at the end of the film that begs for more detail, but I sense it would tarnish the message that had come before.
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