SHERRYBABY LIFTS SCENES FROM REAL LIFE

(VIDEO) Sherrybaby writer Laurie Collyer took scenes from real life rehab and probation meetings for the film.

Writer director Laurie Collyer did her homework to write the screenplay for her feature debut Sherrybaby about a female ex-con and heroin addict by visiting several rehab meetings, camera in hand to get an idea of what really goes on there.

One particular scene made it into the film which was taken directly from a conversation she had with a female ex-con on probation having a meeting with her employment counselor.

“There was a halfway house network in Trenton that I found and they were one of these private non-profit organizations. Their meetings were not AA meetings or NA meetings but they use the 12 steps, the same premise. If it had been regular AA I wouldn’t have been in there with a camera.”

Laurie is currently writing AKA America, a punk rock love story set in San Francisco in the 1980s. rn

“There’s apparently a job agency in New York that she described as the only way you’ll get a good job there is if you blow the job counselor. I thought it was just a euphemism like a figure of speech but she literally meant that was the only way to get a good job and that the girls would participate.”