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.
31 August 1940, Orange, New Jersey, USA
11 June 1992, Paterson, New Jersey, USA
14 December 1988, Salinas, California, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
13 June 1979, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
3 December 1968, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
21 January 1987, New York City, New York, USA
10 January 1989, New York City, New York, USA
June 21, 2016
Gimme Shelter is an example of a faith-based, pro-life film done right.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.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.January 30, 2014
The result is awkward, hyped propaganda for faith-based initiatives and against abortion.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.April 21, 2014
It's the kind of movie that touts itself as 'inspirational,' and it feels like a made-for-TV melodrama.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.September 03, 2014
The film's complicating force and conflict undeniably real, its thrust is defeated by clichéd treatment and uninspired performances.March 04, 2015
Gimme Shelter plays more like a Lifetime movie or after school special.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 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.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.