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Rent Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A parole officer (Jami Gertz) institutes a groundbreaking program to help children whose parents are ...
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Based on a true story. Parole officer Marilyn Gambrell institutes a ground-breaking program at the local high school to help teenagers deal with the myriad of feelings resulting from having a ...
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high schools to help the children of incarcerated parents regain control of their own lives and not expect the same thing to happen as it did to their parents. To the surprise of everyone, the program works, but the administration warns the duo that it ...
Starring Jami Gertz and Ernie Hudson. Faced with teens struggling to process the incarceration of a parent, parole officer Marilyn Gambrell institutes a groundbreaking high school program to help them adapt. Drama 2005 1 hr 36 min. PG-13. Starring Jami Gertz, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Clark. Director Andy Wolk.
Gambrell is also the author of a series of books entitled Cherish the Child Within, a curriculum used by educators, professionals, and social workers, and has recently completed a series of coloring books entitled My Feelings Are Real. She was played by Jami Gertz in the Lifetime movie Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story. See also
With the help of colleague Perry Beasley, Gambrell creates No More Victims, a support group for teens whose parents are incarcerated. But when the duo enters Smiley High, one of Houston's toughest high schools, they'll have to deal with a limited budget, skeptical faculty and super hostile students.
“Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story” follows the journey of Gambrell, played by Jami Gertz, as she transitions from being a parole officer to an educator. Determined to make a difference, Gambrell starts a program called No More Victims, which aims to break the cycle of crime and incarceration among high-risk teenagers. The film chronicles her struggles and successes as she ...
