Credited cast: | |||
Brendan Fraser | ... | Tom Fitzpatrick | |
Rosario Dawson | ... | June Bailey | |
Vanessa Hudgens | ... | Agnes 'Apple' Bailey | |
Stephanie Szostak | ... | Joanna Fitzpatrick | |
James Earl Jones | ... | Frank McCarthy | |
Ann Dowd | ... | Kathy | |
Emily Meade | ... | Cassandra | |
Dascha Polanco | ... | Carmel | |
Candace Smith | ... | Marie Abeanni | |
Tashiana Washington | ... | Destiny / Princess | |
Eddie Schweighardt | ... | Dustin | |
Peter Epstein | ... | Taxi driver | |
Sheila Tapia | ... | Officer Ganz | |
Andrea Cirie | ... | Clinic Nurse | |
Hector Lincoln | ... | June's Boyfriend |
16 year old street-wise Apple (Vanessa Hudgens) has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey (Rosario Dawson), 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 (Brendan Fraser), to take her in. In the few days under her father's care, she learns she's become pregnant by a kid from the streets she met on the train, who now wants nothing to do with her. She is forced to leave her father's home because of her choice to give birth to the baby she is carrying. Apple runs away again, and is eventually taken under the wing of Father ... Written by MAriyah
I saw Gimme Shelter on Jan. 24th (opening day) and it changed me. The film is realistic. Gimme Shelter is a gritty portrayal of a true story. This film will touch you & make you feel humanity. Vanessa Hudgens plays Apple who has lived a very difficult life filled with: sadness, pain, abandonment, abuse, and misery. Growing up she went from foster home to foster home. Rosario Dawson played Apple's sinister/ evil mother. Dawson did an excellent job of portraying a drug addict mother. Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) played Apple's father who works on Wall Street. The powerful message of the film is that sometimes strangers/ friends can feel close like family while your actual family can feel like strangers.
Vanessa Hudgens should win an award for this film.