Genre: Drama
Director: Ava DuVernay
Writer: Mo Buck
Based on the novel by Heather O'Neill
Cast: Chris Pine, Mackenzie Foy, Adrien Brody, Finn Wolfhard, Odette Annable, Octavia Spencer
Plot: Baby (Mackenzie Foy) lives with her father Jules (Chris Pine), a worsening heroin and cocaine addict. They don't have a really stable life, moving from places to places. The only friends Baby have are a homeless junkie living in the alley next to their apartment building and a skinny kid, also living with a drug-addicted father. Baby is aware of the dark side of the world around her. She grew up living next to pimps and prostitutes, often witnessing drug deals in her living room.
Baby likes to imagine what his father was like before her mothers' (Odette Annable) death. She imagines them, happy, with their newborn child, happier than she ever saw her father. He doesn't want to talk about her mother, nor does he wants to tell him how she died, but she never knew her.
Jules often leaves young Baby by herself wherever they may be living, sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month. It's been three weeks, since she last saw her father. Baby becomes distraught and finds herself in the dangerous streets of Montreal, all alone. She struggles to survive, basically living like a homeless person, just to survive. She is eventually taken away by the Child Protective Services agent Ashley (Octavia Spencer) She discovers her father is in the hospital, recovering from tuberculosisand that's why he left her alone. They have no idea what he makes his daughter live through, and Baby is convinced is father has been through enough bad things to denounce him to Ashley. She befriends Ashley in an attempt to avoid being placed in a foster home. She agrees and one day, her father comes back and tells her that everything will be normal, once again.
As Jules and Baby begin to settle down again, Jules' addiction gets the best of him and he begins to lash out at Baby, often for no reason. After one violent beating, Baby runs away. She's taken by a pimp named Alphonse (Adrien Brody),who showers her with gifts and gives her a false feeling of security. one day, she's taken into juvenile detention, where she spends a month. She doesn't know Alphonse is a pimp and refuses to contact her father and insists on contacting Alphonse. When she gets out, Alphonse develops an intimate relationship with Baby, taking her virginity, and forcing her to become a prostitute. She becomes one of his "girls" and is fearful of leaving him. After prostituting herself several times, she attempts to return to the apartment she had shared with Jules, but it is locked from the inside and nobody is there, so she assumes Jules has abandoned her. When she returns, she finds Alphones taking heroine, he gives some to her and she accepts.
Baby goes back to school while still prostituting herself and meets an odd boy named Xavier (Finn Wolfhard). Xavier and Baby slowly but surely become closer and begin to date. As their relationship grows, they become very intimate, and they attempts to have sex at Alphonse's hotel room, the only place they can be alone. They're interrupted by Alphons. He beats Xavier and sends him home. Alphonse then beats Baby and takes all of her heroin. When Baby wakes up the next morning, she finds Alphonse dead of a drug overdose.
Baby leaves Alphonse's room and is left with nowhere to go. She goes in the nearest homeless shelter and it's there that she meets Jules. He's relieved that he found her. They embrace, and Jules explains that he has set up a place to stay with his cousin. They pack up and walk to the local bus station. On the bus, Jules tells Baby how her mother died. It was a snowy night and they were coming back from a date. Jules was driving and he couldn't really see anything, there was no visibility on the road. Jules had quite a lot to drink that night and he crashed the car into a tree on their way home, killing Amanda. Since that day, Jules became a heroin addict to try to forget what he had done that night. Baby forgives him and say that everything will be fine, now. They arrive at Jules's cousin's house and the film ends.
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