Gimme Shelter (2013) (original) (raw)
16 year old street-wise Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey, is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, to ...(more)
16 year old street-wise Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey, is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, to take her in. (less)
Director: Ron Krauss
Writer: Ron Krauss
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Stephanie Szostak, Ann Dowd
Producers: Ron Krauss, Jeff Rice, Dylan Russell, Paul Hellerman, Scott Steindorff, Joshua Amir
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Review by Brian Orndorf, January 23, 2014
5 / 10
�Gimme Shelter� has the appearance of Oscar bait that simply failed to reach its intended goal of award season consideration. The film represents the first official stretch for star Vanessa Hudgens, once the darling of the �High School Musical� pictures and recently a poseable plaything in Harmony Korine�s cross-eyed �Spring Breakers.� Losing the glamour and turning up the New Jersey accent, Hudgens truly breaks away from her sunny day screen persona, and while the work is often beyond her reach, she provides an interesting read of ache in �Gimme Shelter,� fighting to preserve her character�s ...read more...
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