SherryBaby

Movie added on: November 23, 2009

Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to reestablish a relationship with her young daughter…

  • Director: Laurie Collyer
  • Genre: Drama
  • Tagline: No one makes it alone.
  • Runtime: 88 minutes

Cast

Maggie Gyllenhaal : Sherry Swanson
Michelle Hurst : Dorothy Washington
Sandra Rodríguez : Desi
Anna Simpson : Sabrina
Giancarlo Esposito : Parole Officer Hernandez

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Sherry (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has been in prison for three years and is anxious to get back to her young daughter, Alexis (Ryan Simpkins), who has been living with Sherry’s brother Bobby (Brad William Henke) and his wife, Lynnette (Bridget Barkan). The story opens with Sherry’s arrival to her new home, a halfway house for women on parole. She is a former heroin addict and finds re-entering the world outside of prison more difficult than anticipated. Sherry admits at an AA meeting that although she has been clean for over two years, just four days out of prison she is strongly tempted to use. Once her home situation is established her greatest priority is to visit her daughter. Though Sherry is tearful and apologetic and Alexis is slightly shy on greeting, both become very happy on their first reuniting.

Sherry needs to work, but is unable to have the preschool job she wants because she has not finished rehabilitation while still on parole. She uses sex with the employment agent to get the job. Later, after getting into a fight with another woman at the halfway house, she moves in with Bobby without telling her parole officer (Giancarlo Esposito). Although Sherry wants to use the opportunity to become closer to Alexis, things are complicated by the fact that Lynnette thinks Sherry is an unfit mother. She insists that Alexis call Sherry by her first name instead of “mommy”. While at their home Sherry’s father (Sam Bottoms) visits. Sherry competes with her own daughter for his attention and later during dinner at the table he serves Sherry her first alcohol since being sober. The family does not recognize that this is a problem.

Because of the conflict between Sherry and Bobby’s wife, she ends up moving out of their house and into a motel. She also continues to drink increasing amounts of alcohol. As the story progresses, Sherry tries to be a good mother to Alexis, but she is needy and overbearing, and her efforts are upsetting to her daughter. Bobby and Lynnette resist her trying to be a larger part of Alexis’ life so quickly. Sherry ends up confiding in her father, but as she cries on his shoulder, he touches her inappropriately. Bobby witnesses distained, but doesn’t speak and leaves the room. Sherry then leaves, upset, and goes out to find and use heroin.

After this, she returns to an AA meeting where her Native American friend Dean (Danny Trejo), a fellow addict, notices that she has been using again and helps her. He takes her to his house, smudges her with sage and draws her a bath. She borrows clothes from him so that she can return to her preschool job and hide her I.V. bruised arm. After work she goes back to her motel room and finds her parole officer waiting. She confesses that she is “dirty” and asks to be put in outpatient rehab. He tells her that she doesn’t qualify to be an outpatient at this point; she must either go to inpatient rehab, or go back to prison. He gives her the weekend to say her goodbyes to her family and a time and place to report for rehab, and leaves. Read more

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