Rotten
The result is awkward, hyped propaganda for faith-based initiatives and against abortion.
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register
Gimme Shelter
Sometimes you have to leave home to find your family.
2013 · 1h 41m · PG-13
Drama
Directed by
Ron Krauss
Overview
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
Director and cast
- Ron Krauss Director
- Vanessa Hudgens as Agnes 'Apple' Bailey
- Rosario Dawson as June Bailey
- Brendan Fraser as Tom Fitzpatrick
- Stephanie Szostak as Joanna Fitzpatrick
- James Earl Jones as Frank McCarthy
- Dascha Polanco as Carmel
- Emily Meade as Cassandra
- Ann Dowd as Kathy
- Candace Smith as Marie Abeanni
- Tashiana Washington as Destiny / Princess
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
24%
Tomatometer
Rotten
What remains is a poor man's Precious, with all the earlier film's go-for-broke melodrama but none of its weirdness or empathy for the impoverished.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Rotten
An after-school special blown up on the big screen, it stridently aims to inspire you. More likely, it'll make you cringe.
Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com
Fresh
Hudgens captures both the defiance and fear of a girl at this crossroads. Her performance elevates what's often a trite and heavy-handed script.
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Rotten
The kind of film that outfits a potentially compelling story with politically convenient signposts - not understanding that sometimes, getting out of the way of a good tale is the best kind of polemical strategy.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
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