A woman returns from jail and tries to reunite with her young daughter. No Hollywood happy endings or cheesy lessons from this one. It's an all-too-true portrait of Sherry, an idealized addict who is clueless as a bag of hammers as to her own behavior. Maggie Gyllenhaal is absolutely outstanding. She is cut and dried as a troubled addict, yet elicits compassion as well. Brad William Henke and Bridget Barkan are well balanced as her her brother and sister in-law, who have been caring for Sherry's child and have their doubts as Sherry desperately comes back into their lives. Very well told by writer/director Laurie Collyer. If you werent a fan of Maggie Gyllenhaal, you will be after this one. A real treat is Danny Trejo's appearance playing a pretty nice guy. Gritty, true and good.
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Nudity?
Heh ... kidding.
You know, I hear a lot about Maggie Gyllenhall getting naked in movies, but have yet to see anything with her in the buff. Guess I'm just choosing the wrong ones.
On a more serious note, I started watching this once on Netflix but got distracted.
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