GIMME SHELTER
Written
and Directed by Ronald Krauss
Starring Vanessa Hudgens
with James Earl Jones, Rosario Dawson,
Stephanie Szostak, Emily Meade, Ann Dowd
and Brendan Fraser
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GIMME SHELTER opens in
the U.S. on Friday, January 24, 2014.
It has been
rated PG-13 by the MPAA with a running time of 100 minutes.
Based on a true
story, GIMME SHELTER centers on pregnant teenager Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa
Hudgens) who flees her drug-ridden mother (Rosario Dawson) in search of a
better life of her own. Turned away by
her Wall Street father (Brendan Fraser), Apple is forced into the streets on a
desperate journey of survival.
Based on a true story that centers on
16-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), GIMME SHELTER uncovers the
struggle for survival and the hope of redemption through the harsh realities of
life on the streets. As a pregnant
teenager, Apple’s journey plummets her into a perilous struggle until finding
salvation in a suburban shelter for homeless teens. With provisions of unprecedented comfort, a
collective sisterhood connection and female empowerment, the shelter elevates
Apple to break the shackles of her past and inspires her to embrace the future
with clarity, maturity and hope not only for herself but her unborn child.
A pregnant teenager flees
life with her drug-addicted mother and ends up living on the street before
being welcomed into her first real home in Gimme Shelter, an extraordinary tale of survival and redemption
inspired by actual events.
For 16-year-old Agnes “Apple” Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens), life has been a
constant struggle to overcome the harsh reality of a subsistence existence with
her abusive mother, June (Rosario Dawson), and June’s string of lowlife
boyfriends. When she finds herself pregnant and alone, Apple temporarily takes
shelter with her biological father, Tom (Brendan Fraser), a wealthy Wall
Streeter living in a New Jersey mansion with his wife Joanna (Stephanie
Szostak) and two young children. But Apple’s inability to adjust to her new
circumstances, and her refusal to terminate her pregnancy, soon force her back
onto the streets.
Desperate to find a haven for herself and her unborn child, Apple
reluctantly agrees to move into a suburban shelter that houses other pregnant teens.
Emotionally scarred and unable to trust those who want to help her, it seems
unlikely that Apple will be able to adapt to the shelter’s strict rules and
high expectations. With her safety and that of her unborn child at risk, Apple
must find a way to break the shackles of her unhappy past and embrace the
future with clarity, maturity and hope.
Inspired by the real-life, David-and-Goliath story of Several Sources
Shelters founder Kathy DiFiore, award-winning writer and director Ronald Krauss
wrote his original screenplay while spending a year in a shelter for pregnant
teens, and based his poignant screenplay on the lives of several of the shelter
mothers.
Gimme Shelter stars Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical franchise, Machete
Kills), Rosario Dawson (Sin City,
Trance), Brendan Fraser (Crash, The Mummy), James Earl Jones (The
Great White Hope, Star Wars
franchise), Ann Dowd (Compliance, Side Effects) and Dascha Polanco
(“Orange is the New Black”). Also appearing in the film are several real life
shelter mothers, their babies and Kathy DiFiore.
2 comments:
Love these Saturday posts about movies. I don't go very often, but it's good to have a heads up about upcoming "good" movies.
Sonja, thanks for letting me know. I will be having others coming up. I'll be doing a review of this movie soon
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