Gimme Shelter (2013) on Netflix
Agnes "Apple" Bailey is sixteen and pregnant, and her mother, June, is an abusive addict. She runs away to find the father she has never met, a Wall Street broker.
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- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb6.4/109,835 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes29%
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Plot summary
Apple Bailey has spent years moving between foster homes, and her mother, June, is an addict who is abusive to her and keeps her mainly for the welfare money. Apple leaves and sets out to find her father. Tom Fitzpatrick is a wealthy Wall Street broker with a wife, Joanna. He agrees to take Apple in, but when he and Joanna learn she is pregnant and plans to keep the baby, they object and she has to go. Back on the streets, Apple gets into a pimp's car when he mistakes her for someone else; she slips behind the wheel, speeds off and crashes. She comes to in a hospital, where Father Frank McCarthy asks to speak with her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gimme Shelter (2013)
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- Brendan Fraser and James Earl Jones donated their salaries from Gimme Shelter to the Several Sources Shelters, the real-life homes for pregnant girls that the film portrays.
- Before making the film, director Ronald Krauss spent a year documenting girls at the Several Sources Shelter founded by Kathy DiFiore, and the runaway Apple Bailey is based on two of those girls.
- Gimme Shelter was shot in the home of Kathy DiFiore and in the original Several Sources Shelter, the real shelter for pregnant girls where the girls behind Apple Bailey's story stayed.
