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Published: 26 July 2007

Maggie Gyllenhaal as Sherry Swanson after the character is released from jail

Emotional ride for star Maggie

SHERRYBABY
Directed by Laurie Collyer
Certificate 15

IN her plunging halter-neck top, micro-skirt and three-inch heels, Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) raises understandable doubts in the mind of her parole officer (Giancarlo Esposito) when she shimmies into his office on her first day out of jail. Is she ready for the real world, or is she heading for more trouble?
No prizes for guessing the answer to that one. The girl is a recent heroin addict, a single mum pining for her daughter (Ryan Simpkins) after three years away, and she needs to prove she can take the child back as a responsible mother.
Emotionally fragile, and haunted by her own childhood, it isn’t easy. Her future becomes ever more bleak in a seedy hostel where she has to mix with no-hopers.
Her one chance is an old flame (Danny Trejo) to help her back on the straight and narrow.
Gyllenhaal (sister of Jake from Brokeback Mountain) gives a gut-wrenching performance as she struggles to make a new life for herself in the face of all odds.
If she doesn’t touch your heart-strings, nothing will.

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