风雨哈佛路 Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

　　Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, the homeless daughter of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. Liz is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted father & mother, who is also an alcoholic. After her mother dies of HIV, which she got from sharing needles during her drug abuse, she got 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 becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by the New York Times.

　　丽兹(索拉·伯奇 Thora Birch饰)出生在美国的贫民窟里，从小就开始承受着家庭的千疮百孔，父母酗酒吸毒，母亲患上了精神分裂症。贫穷的丽兹需要出去乞讨，流浪在城市的角落，生活的苦难似乎无穷无尽。随着慢慢成长，丽兹知道，只有读书成才方能改变自身命运，走出泥潭般的现况。她从老师那里争取到一张试卷，漂亮的完成答卷，争取到了读书的机会。从现在起，丽兹在漫漫的求学路上开始了征程。她千方百计申请哈佛的全额奖学金，面试时候连一件像样的衣服也没有。然而，贫困并没有止住丽兹前进的决心，在她的人生里面，从不退缩的奋斗是永恒主题。