Sherrybaby

Sherrybaby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Laurie Collyer. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006, the film received a limited release in the United States on September 8, 2006.

In between trips to visit her daughter and her job at a youth center, Sherry attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in an effort to beat back her addiction to heroin. She strikes up a relationship with Dean, a fellow addict she meets at Alcoholics Anonymous. The stresses of her damaged relationships with her family, satisfying her parole officer, and finding a way to reconnect with her daughter soon prove overwhelming. Sherry soon starts drinking and using drugs again, putting her parole at risk. Struggling to maintain a grip on her life, Sherry finally breaks down and admits to her brother that she knows she needs help.Sherrybaby received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 74 of 66 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 6.710. The sites consensus is that Maggie Gyllenhaal delivers a riveting performance as a recovering drug addict in a depressing and entirely believable movie. Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a generally favorable average score of 66, based onreviews. Entertainment Weekly praised the film as emotionally arresting and authentic and moving, and describes Gyllenhaal as such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherrys desperate, selfish destruction. The Christian Science Monitor also gave a positive review of the film, complimenting Collyers vivid eye for detail and the small, telling human moments that make a movie resonate with audiences. ........

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