Gimme Shelter is a feature film written and directed by indy drama film-maker, Ron Krauss.
The film stars an all-star cast led by Vanessa Hudgens, Rosario Dawson, Brendan Fraser, and James Earl Jones.
After Sucker Punch and Spring Breakers, the American starlet tackles her most emotionally complex role yet in this drama adapted from a true story, according to Yahoo News.
Hudgens gets down and dirty to play the role of 16 -year -old Apple, a homeless pregnant teen in need of a loving family. Her mom, June Bailey, played by Rosario Dawson, is an addict and prostitute. June has been abusive to Apple in many ways. So Apple begs her Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, played by Brendan Fraser, to take her in. In the few days under her father's care, she learns that she has become pregnant by a kid from the streets she met on the train. Now he wants nothing to do with her. She is forced to leave her father's home because of her choice to give birth to the baby. Apple runs away again. She meets new people who will eventually come to love her but she also has to deal with the people who have wronged her as well.
Gimme Shelter will be in theaters January 24th.