Sherrybaby
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- Synopsis
- Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal)is recently released from prison and dreams of getting a job, settling down and being a mother to her five-year-old daughter....
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- Director(s)
- Laurie Collyer
- Distributor(s)
- IFC
- MPAA Rating
- Not Yet Rated
- Runtime
- 95 min.
Critic Reviews
Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherry's desperate, selfish destruction.Read the full review
What distinguishes the film from its many peers is the quality of Ms. Collyer’s writing -- which rarely reaches for obvious, melodramatic beats -- and the precision of Ms. Gyllenhaal’s performance. She treats the character neither as a case study nor as an opportunity to show off her range, but rather as a completely ordinary and therefore arrestingly complicated person.Read the full review
Buoyed by Gyllenhaal's hauntingly complex portrait of the vivacious but addictive Sherry, the film is no mere by-the-numbers chronology of addiction. Gyllenhaal's sympathetic and charismatic performance binds us to the horror of Sherry's personal demons.Read the full review
