Sherrybaby
by Laurie Collyer
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Actor: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michelle Hurst, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Bottoms, Sandra Rodr?guezDirector: Laurie Collyer
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Cinematographer: Russell Lee Fine
Writer: Laurie Collyer
Editor: Curtiss Clayton
Editor: Joe Landauer
Producer: Jeb Brody
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: IFC Films
Movie Reviews of Sherrybaby
Movie Review: a satisfying tale
Summary: 4 Stars
Sherry is a troubled woman who just got out of prison for drug related charges. While she was incarcerated, her brother and his wife help take care of her young daughter and are more or less like parents to her. The story focuses on Sherry changing her life so that she can be a mother to her daughter. Later in the film we see that Sherry is far from recovered... she relapses and she continues to make bad decisions.
It seemed a little cruel with how Sherry's brother and his wife told the child to call her mother "Sherry" instead of mom, but what happens later in the film makes it all the more understandable. We see that Sherry is mostly a child herself emotionally and came from a dysfunctional environment where she had been molested by her father.
The film was sad, but these kinds of stories are played out everyday in real life.
Summary of Sherrybaby
Maggie Gyllenhaal is mesmerizing as a recovering addict in writer-director Laurie Collyer's feature-length fiction-film debut SHERRYBABY. Gyllenhaal stars as Sherry Swanson a troubled woman who has just been released from prison where she spent three years for robbery to support her heroin addiction. Determined to regain control of her life she moves into a halfway house and starts looking for a job being carefully watched by her tough parole officer (Giancarlo Esposito). At an AA meeting she is drawn to Dean Walker (Danny Trejo) a gritty older man who befriends her--but his ties to her dangerous past life threaten to pull her back in. Sherry's main desire is to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter Alexis (Ryan Simpkins) who is being raised by Sherry's brother Bobby (Brad William Henke) and his wife Lynnette (Bridget Barkan)--but Lynnette doesn't trust Sherry wanting to keep Alexis for her own. As Sherry struggles to get back on track she plays by her own rules with drugs and a return to prison waiting just around the corner. Gyllenhaal gives a raw bare powerful performance as the embattled and desperate Sherry who will do almost anything to regain her daughter's love. Loosely based on the story of one of Collyer's closest childhood friends SHERRYBABY which got its start in the Sundance Filmmaker's Lab is an emotional rollercoaster of a movie with realistic characters an excellent cast and plenty of surprising turns.System Requirements:Running Time: 96 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?025193343628 Manufacturer No:?68033436A disturbing film about a recovering drug addict trying to regain control of her life, Sherrybaby succinctly depicts what can happen when want and desire aren't offset by control. In this bleak indie film, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stranger Than Fiction, Secretary) has just been released from a three-year stint in prison. Dressed in her inappropriate uniform of a halter top and oh-so-high platform heels, she goes to brother's house to see her 5-year-old daughter, Lexie (Ryan Simpkins). Sherry is determined to be a mother to her child, but without a home, job, or any other form of stability, she grows frustrated and jealous of her brother and sister-in-law's roles in Lexie's life. Tall and willowy, Gyllenhaal brings a sad desperation and simmering sexuality to the role. Sherry's middle-class childhood was a blur of sex and drugs, and she seems incapable of breaking out of that destructive trap. While the script by first-time feature film director Laurie Collyer isn't wholly original, the picture moves at a good pace, giving insight as to why Sherry's resigned to using sex to get what she wants. While the family secret doesn't come as a complete surprise, it is somewhat perplexing that no one addresses it. Ultimately, it's Gyllenhaal who makes you care about a character that most people would've given up on. --Jae-Ha Kim
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