This collection of Lifetime® Original Movies features four inspiring films about people overcoming great odds – and the first three are based on true stories. The three-time Emmy®-nominated Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story stars Thora Birch as a homeless 15-year-old girl who doesn’t let her circumstances prevent her from attending Harvard University. In Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, Sarah Chalke plays Geralyn Lucas, a 27-year-old woman with a breast cancer diagnosis whose story is an empowering reminder that attitude is everything. Ambulance Girl, directed by and starring Academy Award®-winner Kathy Bates, tells the stirring – and hilarious – story of a woman who overcomes depression by becoming a volunteer EMT. And three-time Emmy®-nominated We Were The Mulvaneys (Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner), based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, follows a “perfect” family that struggles to keep their only daughter’s rape a shameful secret. Prepare to laugh, cry, and think again about what is possible in the face of adversity.
DISC ONE - Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story / Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
DISC TWO - Ambulance Girl / We Were the Mulvaneys
Lifetime Gold Collection arrives on DVD with a 480i transfer in the original aspect ratios of 1.33:1 and 1.78:1. The presentation is a mixed bag of soft images and smeared colors sometimes. The more more recent movies exhibit much better detail and colors were more natural with no bleeding. Black levels as a whole were good. 6.5/10
Audio is provided by a Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 track. Okay overall, as expected these are talk heavy tracks and the dialogue was crisp and clean. Music was played too good effect, stereo separation was somewhat flat. 6.5/10