"With Honors": Caring Community Becomes Family

In the 1994 movie With Honors, Joe Pesci plays the role of Simon Wilder, a homeless vagrant living in the boiler room of the Harvard University library. His life has been marked by a series of bad choices and bad breaks. Attempting to make the best of his circumstances, Simon has secretly created a cozy, book-lined living space undetected by the University security.

One day Simon finds the one and only copy of a senior's thesis. It belongs to Harvard ...