A gem of a movie, a masterpiece of inspiration, just phenomenal. It is based on a true story which makes it so worthwhile to watch this!
It certainly was heartwarming; my eyes welled with tears every minute of the movie, but the end is so inspiring..
A girl born in a New York suburb to loving but drug addict parents...her mother an utter slave to the addiction; but her father, though an alcoholic was a brilliant mind! I guess she got some bit of him...She was helped by a neighbor who would give her encyclopedia books from a scrap house she accidentally got access to..She ended up reading all the books and would only show up for her end term exams in the public school she had been enrolled in.
She still would ace all of them..Somehow she had the guts to leave her home when her mother was dying and her father had been taken away because he couldn't pay the house rent anfd was an addict himself. A kind grandfatherly soul stayed with her mother until her last breath...
She cried a lot when she first got to know the news..but then she was strong enough to put herself together
"Do any of us bargain for our lives? It seems to me we just kind of fall into them..and then we have to do the best we can."
She worked as hard as could and see what could come to her..she won the NYT scholarship and went on to join Harvard. A like her could come thus far only because of her grit, determination, hard work and common sense...most important of all her ability to move on..
It certainly was heartwarming; my eyes welled with tears every minute of the movie, but the end is so inspiring..
A girl born in a New York suburb to loving but drug addict parents...her mother an utter slave to the addiction; but her father, though an alcoholic was a brilliant mind! I guess she got some bit of him...She was helped by a neighbor who would give her encyclopedia books from a scrap house she accidentally got access to..She ended up reading all the books and would only show up for her end term exams in the public school she had been enrolled in.
She still would ace all of them..Somehow she had the guts to leave her home when her mother was dying and her father had been taken away because he couldn't pay the house rent anfd was an addict himself. A kind grandfatherly soul stayed with her mother until her last breath...
She cried a lot when she first got to know the news..but then she was strong enough to put herself together
"Do any of us bargain for our lives? It seems to me we just kind of fall into them..and then we have to do the best we can."
She worked as hard as could and see what could come to her..she won the NYT scholarship and went on to join Harvard. A like her could come thus far only because of her grit, determination, hard work and common sense...most important of all her ability to move on..
