Gimme Shelter
Drama
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 McCarthy (James Earl Jones), the chaplain of the
local hospital after almost getting herself killed. He offers to let
Apple live at a shelter for pregnant young women run by a spiritual
woman named Kathy (Ann Dowd). It is here that Apple begins to
tentatively interact with the other girls who are in the same
predicament as she and gradually begins to make a family for herself.
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