Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
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Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story | |
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Genre | Biographical drama |
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Directed by | Andy Wolk |
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Music by | Bruce Leitl |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Cinematography | John Berrie |
Editor | Drake Silliman |
Running time | 120 minutes |
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Network | Lifetime |
Release | August 22, 2005 |
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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.
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Categories:
- 2005 television films
- 2005 films
- 2005 biographical drama films
- 2005 in American television
- 2000s American films
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s high school films
- American biographical drama films
- American drama television films
- American high school films
- Biographical films about educators
- Biographical television films
- Films about rape in the United States
- Films set in Houston
- Lifetime (TV channel) films
- Biographical film stubs