Sherrybaby
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Movie Review: Worth seeing if you like Gyllenhaal
Summary: 4 Stars
I really liked Maggie Gyllenhaal's performances in Secretary and Stranger than Fiction, so I decided to give this one a try. I didn't think it was as bleak as the Amazon reviewer said. Gyllenhaal's character, Sherry, is overcoming a drug addiction and on parole, but she truly loves her daughter and wants to be her mother.
Sherry is frustrated because her brother and sister-in-law have become parental figures in her daughter's life. Sherry's daughter shies away from her mother. Although Sherry is deeply flawed, I think most viewers will root for her. Gyllenhaal brings her characteristic charm and humor to the role, even as her character faces dark circumstances.
The movie is nicely paced and never drags, but it doesn't seem rushed either. And Gyllenhaal and her daughter turn in great performances. The little girl seems very natural. I liked how the actors and actresses in the movie looked like real people, and it seemed realistic even if most people haven't experienced that world.
Movie Review: Sherry is Pathetic, Abused, Self-Absorbed and Very REAL
Summary: 4 Stars
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Sherry demonstrates a character who has to fight the system (hostile Parole Officers, advantage seeking counselors), her own internal demons (addiction, immaturity, and low-self esteem), and the external demons (a father who appears supportive but only so he can continue the sexual abuse of his self-destructive daughter, though is it any wonder? Plus a daughter who doesn't know her). Sherry's only real ally is her brother who shows genuine caring and support for a sister who lives a reverse (perverse) philosophy existence contrary of everything he believes in (he even notes that he quit smoking displaying his strength to her weaknesses). Sherry is self-destructive, and a victim, yet she's a fighter too. Dean, who she believes is her friend, still uses her for sex unbeknownst to her own naďve nature. Additionally, she's quite willing to use her sexual prowess to get ahead, because her low self-esteem has her believing it's all she has. So sad, and just so Realistic. A MUST see.Movie Review: helpless and sad exactly like holle berry's "losing isaiah"
Summary: 4 Stars
this young woman's struggles didn't move me but sadden me a lot. a story being told many times already, almost similar to holle berry's 'Losing Isaiah'. same helpless and hopeless situation and storyline. maggie gyllenhaal did a very good and unpretentious job in this actually pretty boring movie. the father's was a mis-cast, looked too young to be her father. furthermore, why everytime a production out of hollywood would have to put a woman to find a job by bending over or kneeling down in front a man? it's not just cliched but also very disgusting.
well, tough luck. if sherry's brother and his wife(especially the wife) got kids by themselves, then they might not be so parentally protective and selfish to sherry's daughter. if sherry not turned out to be drug addict and imprisoned so long, this story might not even have happened. what goes around, comes around. you could blame to sherry's bad zodiac and feng suei.
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.
Movie Review: A frank look at addiction and rehabilation
Summary: 4 Stars
Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Sherry Swanson, a convict who is released from jail and who wants to reunite with her young daughter. One of the conditions of her parole is that she cannot leave the state for any reason and the state is New Jersey. It's hard to imagine a worse fate for anyone than being trapped in New Jersey and you can't leave!
Seriously, this one is not exactly a light comedy or a yuckfest. We see Sherry make one bad decision after another and it doesn't take long for the viewer to sense that we are not on the way to a happy ending here. At first, I thought Gyllenhaal may be too glamorous for this part but she handles the part very well. Many of the key plot elements are very subtle so this is a movie where the viewer must pay attention. It's not a pleasant movie and it richly earns it's R rating but it is well done- 4 stars.