Gimme Shelter 2013 Watch Free in HD

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.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Hudgens, Ann Dowd, Emily Meade, James Earl Jones, Dascha Polanco, Stephanie Szostak, Candace Smith, Tashiana Washington, Eddie Schweighardt, ...»

Director:

Ron Krauss

Country:

United States

Release:

2013

IMDb:

6.4

Quality:

Duration:

101 min

ChristyLemire.com

An after-school special blown up on the big screen, it stridently aims to inspire you. More likely, it'll make you cringe.

January 27, 2014

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Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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.

February 21, 2014

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The Film Stage

Gimme Shelter is an example of a faith-based, pro-life film done right.

June 21, 2016

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Chicago Reader

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.

January 30, 2014

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Columbus Alive

It's the kind of movie that touts itself as 'inspirational,' and it feels like a made-for-TV melodrama.

April 21, 2014

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New York Observer

It is the galvanizing force of Vanessa Hudgens who catapults Gimme Shelter above the heartbreaking level of soap opera with a lancing effect.

January 24, 2014

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ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The film's complicating force and conflict undeniably real, its thrust is defeated by clichéd treatment and uninspired performances.

September 03, 2014

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

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.

January 27, 2014

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New York Magazine/Vulture

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 24, 2014

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The Dissolve

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.

February 06, 2014

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Bullz-Eye.com

Gimme Shelter plays more like a Lifetime movie or after school special.

March 04, 2015

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Orange County Register

The result is awkward, hyped propaganda for faith-based initiatives and against abortion.

January 30, 2014

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