SHERRYBABY (2006)

Thrown in jail as a junkie at 16, Sherry Swanson has been released from prison a grown woman and is hoping for a second chance at life. Confronted with unemployment, parole restrictions and halfway houses, Sherry's only desire is to reconnect with her daughter. She soon learns that may never happen as her brother Bobby and his wife want to raise her on their own.

"It's based on the life of a woman I grew up with," says writer/director Laurie Collyer. "I wrote it ten years ago and then put it away until 2000 when I polished it and sent it to the Sundance lab." She got in and interest in the lead role increased. "She's got to experience life in all these different environments," Collyer explains about the lead. "She's very streetwise, she's got to play someone who's a mother alienated from her daughter, she has to hit all these emotional notes."

While at the lab she met Naomi Foner, who suggested that Collyer she send the script to her daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal. Collyer did so and with Gyllenhaal on board, she was able to find financing through Lemore Syvan's Elevation FilmWorks and Marc Turteltaub's Deep River Productions.

Directed by: Laurie Collyer
Written by: Laurie Collyer
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Bridget Barkan, Ryan Simpkins, Danny Trejo
Production Company: Elevation Filmworks
Budget: 1.5 Million
Filming: Filmed in 25 days in July 2004 at Mountainside, New Jersey

• Maggie Says:

"I did this movie which may be the one closest to my heart that I just finished 2 weeks ago and I'm still recovering from in some ways I think called "Shall Not Want" which is a movie that I've been attached to. I found this incredible script about this woman who just got out of prison and have a 5 year-old. I had been holding onto to it for years and was trying to set it up and get it going. We did it, we made it and shot it in 25 days and that movie...I just felt she was another incredible woman. It was a movie shot in 25 days as I said, where I'm in every moment of it and I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks - the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison. It had hard stuff I was dealing with in that movie. I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. We were shooting 14 hour days in Newark, going home really to basically eat something and sleep. So most of my waking life was playing this woman and working constantly. Not like a big movie where you shoot for an hour or 2, then they light for a couple of hours. This was constantly, constantly, constantly working and it just takes a little while sometimes to recover from something like that. " -- From Dark Horizons

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