Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story (2005)

Directed by

Andy Wolk

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former parole officer creates a program to help high school students who have suffered abuse at home. She teaches them to stand up for themselves and support each other.

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What happens

Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story is a 2005 American biographical drama television film which tells the true story of a former parole officer named Marilyn Gambrell, who helped a group of students at M. B. Smiley High School in Houston, Texas. The students had either been raped, sexually harassed and/or beaten by their own parents. Marilyn helped the students learn to fight back for one another and for themselves. For this, she created the No More Victims program. The film aired on Lifetime. It stars Jami Gertz, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Clark and Sicily Sewell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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