(Sherrybaby), Laurie Collyer / USA, 2006
English version / Czech subtitles, 96 min
Sherry Swanson, a past drug addict, returns from jail. Her attempts to begin a normal life only meets with distrust from her surrounding, her daughter Alexis, who has been living at Sherry’s brother and his wife is very much confused by the emergence of the “lost” mother. Desperation increases and drugs are so available … This film by Laurie Collyer fully develops the acting of Maggie Gyllenhaal, thanks to whom the film becomes a powerful meditation on failure, desire to make up for one’s mistakes and the hope for a better (normal) life.
