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ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

flackjacket This movie paved a new road to a previously unknown art form. Something I've never seen before on screen, or in real life.As many have pointed out - it has sub par acting, poor script writing and looks as if it was directed by a high school media student who gets bad grades. But that's all been done before.There was one thing that this movie had that no other movie before ever had. That is, the art of audible smoking.I've known a lot of smokers over the years, both male and female, young and old. And I've never seen (or should I say heard) any of them smoke the way the lead "actress" of this film does. This audible smoking technique runs throughout the film, but the most notable example is the scene in her brother's kitchen where she is standing in front of the wall phone.There's the loud inhale, a brief pause, and then the louder exhale carefully skewing the mouth sideways so as not to blow smoke at the cameraman.Another example is when the biker enters her room. Once again, the loud inhale, a brief pause and then the louder sideways exhale.I've been on earth for over half a decade. Like I said, I've known a lot of smokers. But I've never seen or heard any of them smoke like this.

bowmanblue No mistake, some people may find 'Sherrybaby' a little difficult to watch. But then it's designed that way. It covers many difficult subjects, but manages not to be gratuitous in the process. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the titular character, Sherry Swanson, who is released from prison and sets about trying to get her life back together and patch things up with the young daughter she lost.However, Sherry has a few personal demons that won't seem to let her go entirely straight. For a start, she's promiscuous, craves hard drugs and isn't slow to use her fists if she thinks she will. All in all this would normally make any 'lead character' pretty unlikable. However, I think most people will still root for Sherry. Because behind all that is a deeply troubled soul who, in her heart, is trying to do good, only her past just won't seem to let her.Plus Gyllenhaal plays the part with just enough balance to show Sherry's bad and good qualities. She's certainly no 'traditional' lead character, but her frailties are there for all to see – and don't we all have some of those? As the story progresses, we learn more about her past and, even though it's not spelt out to us, can put together what made her that way.Sherrybaby is worth seeing if you enjoy poignant film-making that really gets you to root for a damaged character and makes you want to see them succeed despite the odds.I won't go into too many plot points, as I don't want to give too much away, but, as I said earlier, it does deal with numerous 'hard-hitting' topics. Just because you don't see too much (graphically) doesn't mean that it's not lurking beneath the surface.Gyllenhaal didn't get an Oscar nod for her performance, but that doesn't mean her portrayal wasn't Oscar-worthy.

Chrysanthepop With 'SherryBaby', director Laurie Collyer depicts the 'lower class' culture through the story of Sherry Swanson, an ex-convict and former drug addict who attempts to rebuild her life and her relationship with her daughter. She finds that nothing is the way she left it and her brother and sister-in-law, who're now raising her daughter, have become strong parental figures and Sherry resents that and feels threatened. At the same time, she struggles to readjust in society, coping with her addiction, getting along with people and finding employment.While the film touches on some heavy themes as it depicts Sherry's fight, it thankfully doesn't go into full depressive tearjerking mode. At the same time, 'SherryBaby' is almost devoid of humour. Through Sherry's perspective, the viewer witnesses how difficult it can be for the 'lower class' Americans to get by with decency and how they're easily judged and blamed.'SherryBaby' works best as a character-driven piece. Through subtlety, director Laurie Collyer and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal portray the abnormal relationship she has with her sleazy father. While, on the outside, Sherry is a not-to-be messed with tough chick especially around other women, and an 'easy lay' to men, her vulnerability and helplessness are confronted in her private moments and sometimes in the scenes with Dean.'SherryBaby' showcases Maggie Gyllenhaal's acting as she delivers yet another tour-du-force performance with her down-to-earth portrayal of the title character. It's a very balanced performance that appears natural on screen and the actress depicts the character's frailty, frustration, confusion with excellent conviction. The supporting cast is very good too, especially Danny Trejo (who is cast against type) and Brad William Henke as the brother who's trying to do what's best for his niece while giving his sister a second chance.'SherryBaby' is a sincere effort on the director's part. She captures the realness of Sherry's circumstances very effectively but it is her leading actress that very much leads the film carrying it off with a transcendent performance.

Ilovehandbagsandshoes I've read lots of the comments on here and I would just like to say that a lot of people seem to have completely missed the point of this movie.For starters it was showcased at the Sundance Festival – which should make you think 'this is gonna be a bit different, a bit cleaver than usual perhaps'. Then, if you had bothered to watch every scene - and not walk out to make coffee and miss the crucial incident (more later) - then you would come to realise that there is no linear narrative, this film doesn't give you the answers or partial answers in any logical order. Unfortunately for some, you do actually have to do a little work here to piece it all together and work out that this is a woman who was systematically abused by her father, probably for a long time and through the misery of self-loathing and guilt turned to drugs and alcohol as a teenager as a means of escape. She eventually fell pregnant (it may have been her father's child) has the child, then, unable to cope on her own, let alone with a child, descends into a spiral of chaotic behaviour that winds up with her doing time in, as you would call, the state pen.Maybe she is a washed-out, no-good, pathetic whatever-you-want-to-call-her but please, people, look at the part where in a startlingly familiar e.g. habitual way, her father assaults her, notice too that her brother is watching, and runs to hide. No one confronts the father (who has a new wife and yet still tries it on with daughter), instead, Sherry (the victim) runs out of the house and goes straight to her drug dealer on an auto-phobic bender. Notice also that its her brother who later says to her "I am on your side". (e.g. I know what you have been through, I know what has messed with your mind and your self-belief). In other words, some pretty big reasons as to why people behave they way they do don't actually take a huge amount of guesswork to figure out...