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Information
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 96 min.
- Director
- Laurie Collyer
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 10,085
- Checks
- 598
- Favs
- 19
- Dislikes
- 12
- Favs/checks
- 3.2% (1:31)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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dombrewer
Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a heroic, career best performance as Sherry Swanson, a heroin addict struggling to get her life back on track and reconnect with her young daughter Alexis after several years in prison. It's a bruising, emotionally raw performance bristling with barely contained frustration and desperation - at her brother and sister in law who have been raising Alexis as their own, at her parole officer, at fellow addicts in a half way house, and more often than not at herself. As with any film concerning addiction the proof is whether you care enough about the character to will them to succeed and feel their pain when they don't - Gyllenhaal manages this expertly. It's certainly not an easy film to watch, Sherry is far from a likeable character, behaving irrationally and selfishly at times, but her predicament is absolutely believable and involving. A harsh slice of life from debut writer/director Laurie Collyer, clearly a name to look out for in the future. 11 years 2 months ago -
nicolaskrizan
great acting, unspectacular story, lame ending – not in the book
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