This is a non-judgmental film, a study of character and what shapes it rather than a case history. She has learnt to use sex as a way of gaining affection and manipulating men, and we suspect that this has come from parental abuse. Sherry's aggressive, assertive, and overly confident about taking back her life after leaving her middle-class home at 16 to work in bars and consort with drug addicts and criminals. She has a five-year-old daughter, Alexis, now living with Sherry's brother and sister-in-law, who have emotionally turned the child into their own. She's emerged a model prisoner from three years in jail after feeding a serious heroin addiction by thieving. Everything we know about her we infer from what we observe or hear. Sherry Swanson is a 22-year-old woman coming by bus one rainy day to a New Jersey suburb, all of her possessions in a plastic bag. L aurie Collyer's SherryBaby is the impressive feature debut of a documentary director, a low-key independent film with an astonishing performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal in the title role.
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