Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson, Brendan Fraser, James Earl Jones
Director: Ronald Kauss
Running Time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)
Director: Ronald Kauss
Running Time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 14th 2014 (UK)
Vanessa Hudgens continues her quest to prove she’s decidedly not a squeaky clean Disney Channel star anymore. In Gimme Shelter she is Apple, a teenager dealing with a childhood where she’s been in and out of often abusive foster case and has a junkie mother (Rosario Dawson) who only cares about the welfare check she brings in.
Apple runs away to find the father she never knew (Brendan Fraser), but when that doesn’t go well and she discovers that she’s pregnant, she starts to feel life on the streets may be her only option – until she finds potential salvation when a priest (James Earl Jones) tells her about a home for teen moms. [Read more…]
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