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Gimme Shelter
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A pregnant teenager flees her abusive mother in search of her father, only to be rejected by her stepmother and forced to survive on the streets until a compassionate stranger offers a hopeful alternative.
A pregnant teenager flees her abusive mother in search of her father, only to be rejected by her stepmother and forced to survive on the streets until a compassionate stranger offers a hopeful alternative.
Actors:
Rashmi,
Peter Epstein,
Joe Mancini,
Laneya Wiles,
Allyson Bailey,
Jade Jackson,
Darlisha Dozier,
Marc Bicking,
Sheila Tapia,
Karina Bonnefil,
Kemani Holmes
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Rashmi
Peter Epstein
Joe Mancini
25 October 1957, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Laneya Wiles
21 January 1987, New York City, New York, USA
Allyson Bailey
Jade Jackson
Darlisha Dozier
Marc Bicking
Sheila Tapia
Karina Bonnefil
13 June 1979, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Kemani Holmes
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
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February 06, 2014
There's a whole [other] film to be made [...]-one driven less by hysterics and villainous mother figures, and more by examples of how charity and compassion can turn dead ends into doorways-but Gimme Shelter doesn't seem to want to make it.
January 24, 2014
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.
January 30, 2014
The result is awkward, hyped propaganda for faith-based initiatives and against abortion.
March 04, 2015
Gimme Shelter plays more like a Lifetime movie or after school special.
January 27, 2014
An after-school special blown up on the big screen, it stridently aims to inspire you. More likely, it'll make you cringe.
September 03, 2014
The film's complicating force and conflict undeniably real, its thrust is defeated by clichéd treatment and uninspired performances.
January 24, 2014
It is the galvanizing force of Vanessa Hudgens who catapults Gimme Shelter above the heartbreaking level of soap opera with a lancing effect.
April 21, 2014
It's the kind of movie that touts itself as 'inspirational,' and it feels like a made-for-TV melodrama.
January 27, 2014
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.
February 21, 2014
Vanessa Hudgens proves that she's a versatile, grown-up performer in 'Gimme Shelter,' an unsettling look at a pregnant teenager who seems to have nowhere to run.
June 21, 2016
Gimme Shelter is an example of a faith-based, pro-life film done right.
January 30, 2014
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.
