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Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story is a film of genre Drama directed by Andy Wolk released in USA on 22 august 2005 with Jami Gertz
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story (2005)
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Add to a movie listFighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story is a 2005 TV 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, United States. 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 starred Jami Gertz, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Clark and Sicily Sewell.
Actors
Jami Gertz
(Marilyn Gambrell)
Ernie Hudson
(Perry Beasley)
Eugene Clark
(Reginald Spivey)
Sicily Johnson
(Lisa Jones)
Trent Cameron
(Jamal)
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