I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Sherry Swanson (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a recovering addict after serving prison time. She is placed in a halfway house and desperate to reconnect with her daughter who is living with her brother's family. She is perfectly willing to exchange sex for favors. She befriends Dean Walker (Danny Trejo) from the recovery meeting who recognizes her as a stripper. There is hostilities at the halfway house and she stays at her brother's home. It doesn't go well and she starts using again. Parole Officer Hernandez (Giancarlo Esposito) threatens her with prison time if she doesn't go back to treatment.Maggie Gyllenhaal is great but Sherry is not terribly likable. She's a self-destructive addict who is a danger to her daughter. It's not until the bitter end that her self-obsessed destruction clears up. It would be better for her to build some more sympathy early on. It is still a devastating performance.

This movie paved a new road to a previously unknown art form. Something I've never seen before on screen, or in real life.As many have pointed out - it has sub par acting, poor script writing and looks as if it was directed by a high school media student who gets bad grades. But that's all been done before.There was one thing that this movie had that no other movie before ever had. That is, the art of audible smoking.I've known a lot of smokers over the years, both male and female, young and old. And I've never seen (or should I say heard) any of them smoke the way the lead "actress" of this film does. This audible smoking technique runs throughout the film, but the most notable example is the scene in her brother's kitchen where she is standing in front of the wall phone.There's the loud inhale, a brief pause, and then the louder exhale carefully skewing the mouth sideways so as not to blow smoke at the cameraman.Another example is when the biker enters her room. Once again, the loud inhale, a brief pause and then the louder sideways exhale.I've been on earth for over half a decade. Like I said, I've known a lot of smokers. But I've never seen or heard any of them smoke like this.

Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence for theft to feed her drug habits. Wishing to go straight and be a proper mother to her young daughter, Sherry soon finds that it's going to be harder than she had initially hoped.I honestly in no way want to be detrimental to the story on offer here, these are realistic problems that are handled adroitly and given care and attention by all involved. Whilst the lead performance from Maggie Gyllenhaal is right from the top draw, providing evidence that a fine actress is there if she wants to keep challenging herself. I just felt so flat after watching it, what has it achieved come the finale? What makes this stand out from the ream of similar pictures that have dealt with these kind of topics over the years? The answer, sadly, is nothing, perhaps we are at such a desensitised stage in cinema that sex for favours, drugs are hell and destitute ex cons fail to engage us? Even the curve ball thrown in here is very much expected, we feel angry and sickened, yes, but it ultimately comes off as being a shock tactic, no matter how real it is.I fully understand that there are people who will appreciate the subtle slow burn of the piece, not every one likes the sledge hammer approach that we get in something like Requiem For A Dream for example. Yet in spite of its competent and poignant approach work, Sherrybaby falls way way short of making the impact that I'm sure director/writer Laurie Collyer would have aimed for, and that's as much a shame as Sherry Swanson's life is in the film. 6/10

I've read lots of the comments on here and I would just like to say that a lot of people seem to have completely missed the point of this movie.For starters it was showcased at the Sundance Festival – which should make you think 'this is gonna be a bit different, a bit cleaver than usual perhaps'. Then, if you had bothered to watch every scene - and not walk out to make coffee and miss the crucial incident (more later) - then you would come to realise that there is no linear narrative, this film doesn't give you the answers or partial answers in any logical order. Unfortunately for some, you do actually have to do a little work here to piece it all together and work out that this is a woman who was systematically abused by her father, probably for a long time and through the misery of self-loathing and guilt turned to drugs and alcohol as a teenager as a means of escape. She eventually fell pregnant (it may have been her father's child) has the child, then, unable to cope on her own, let alone with a child, descends into a spiral of chaotic behaviour that winds up with her doing time in, as you would call, the state pen.Maybe she is a washed-out, no-good, pathetic whatever-you-want-to-call-her but please, people, look at the part where in a startlingly familiar e.g. habitual way, her father assaults her, notice too that her brother is watching, and runs to hide. No one confronts the father (who has a new wife and yet still tries it on with daughter), instead, Sherry (the victim) runs out of the house and goes straight to her drug dealer on an auto-phobic bender. Notice also that its her brother who later says to her "I am on your side". (e.g. I know what you have been through, I know what has messed with your mind and your self-belief). In other words, some pretty big reasons as to why people behave they way they do don't actually take a huge amount of guesswork to figure out...