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  Average Rating for Sherrybaby - 3 out of 5

  
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• Sherrybaby

  Barnaby Walter 22 November 2008

  

  This credible but slightly unbalanced film shows us a mother's desperate attempts to win her daughter's love after she served a stint in prison. In an Oscar worthy performance Maggie Gynllenhall takes the lead as the drug addicted mother who finds it hard to go straight after her pre-prison life of drink and drugs threatens to revisit her. However, she is desperate to get a job working with children (something she manages to land after performing sex favours to authority figures). Something with the film doesn't quite fit, though this may be down not to lack of story, but the indecisive way the script hovers around awkward points. Still, this is far from a failure, with some touching moments of acting from both the lead and supporting cast.

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. No one makes it alone. Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin addict, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) begins her first day of freedom, clean and sober. A model prisoner who has undergone personal transformation, she immediately sets out to regain custody of her young daughter Alexis (Ryan Simpkins).

Powerful and emotional drama about a young mother's attempts to regain custody of her son. Writer-director Laurie Collyer's feature debut stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as Sherry Swanson, a recovering heroin addict, who after parole from prison is determined to get her life back on track. Sherry's main objective is to re-establish a relationship with her young daughter Alexis (Ryan Simpkins), currently cared for by her brother Bobby (Brad William Henke) and his wife Lynnette (Bridget Barkan), who secretly wants to keep her. As Sherry battles to keep on the straight and narrow, she learns to play by her own rules, all the time aware that one wrong move could send her back to jail.