About Cherry (2012)

A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.

Director:

Stephen Elliott

Writers:

Stephen Elliott, Lorelei Lee

Stars:

Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, Heather Graham

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ashley Hinshaw	...	Angelina
Lili Taylor	...	Phyllis
Dev Patel	...	Andrew
Diane Farr	...	Jillian
Jonny Weston	...	Bobby
James Franco	...	Frances
Heather Graham	...	Margaret
Maya Raines	...	Jojo
Vincent Palo	...	Paco
Elana Krausz	...	Lana
Isaac Fitzberald	...	Mike G
Lorelei Lee	...	Sophey
K. Lee	...	Sweet
Princess Donna	...	Aimee
Sensi Pearl	...	Vicki

Storyline

The eighteen year-old Angeline raises money with a session of naked pictures and leaves her alcoholic and dysfunctional parents fleeing to San Francisco with her friend Andrew. They rent a room in the apartment of the gay Paco and Angeline finds a job in a strip club and Andrew in a bookstore. Soon Angeline has a love affair with the drug-addicted lawyer Frances and joins the adult industry making porn. Meanwhile the lesbian director Margaret becomes obsessed on her.

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Plot Keywords:

strip club | porn | voyeurism | voyeur | oral sex | 

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Taglines:

There's no such thing as going too far.

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content, including nudity, language and some drug material

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 August 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cherry

Filming Locations:

San Francisco Armory, 1800 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$2,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$2,760 (USA) (21 September 2012)

Gross:

$2,760 (USA) (21 September 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Enderby Entertainment, Gordon Bijelonic / Datari Turner Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is Heather Graham's second role involving the porn industry. In About Cherry, she is a photographer taking pictures of naked girls. In Boogie Nights, she was one of the naked girls.

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Quotes

Angelina: You love me - just not enough to jerk off to somebody else!

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Soundtracks

Change, No Change
Written by Gabe Levine, Conrad Doucette, Jamie Jurrens, Drew Thurlow and Rene Planchon
Performed by Takka Takka
Courtesy of Ernest Jenning Record Co.
By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music

User Reviews

A realistic drama without any realistic drama.

This is a movie that is trying to pick a more realistic approach with its drama and characters, with as a problem though that neither the drama or characters feel involving or realistic in any way.

I'm still a bit confused where the movie thought it was supposed to get its drama from. The premise of the movie does indeed let it sound like a heavy drama, in which an innocent young girl gets stuck into the world of drugs and porn but the problem with the movie is that none of the drama feels desperate in anyway. I don't even know why the girl got into porn in the first place. It was not like she had abusive parents, or was extremely poor and had no other prospects in life. In other words, there was just nothing miserable or hopeless about her life at all, so why does she decided to make such a drastic life changing decision? The movie is never really clear on it and lets stuff just happen, without letting it have an emotional impact neither.

So maybe her life starts spiraling down once she gets into porn? No, on the contrary actually. She has more money and friends than ever before, so what is the movie actually trying to do or say? Bottomline is that it's trying to be dramatic, without letting anything on the screen come across as dramatic. What a weird and terribly ineffective approach for a drama to take.

It's as if the movie itself also realized that it's drama and main character weren't really working out, since it decides to throw in a bunch of more characters, with each their own things going on. Some of it feels out of place, while some of it does indeed work out more interestingly. It gives the movie at least some variety.

So no, I actually didn't completely hated watching this movie but it still made me constantly go; what's the point of all of it and why am I watching this in the first place?

And the ending...well, it wraps things up but it doesn't ever reach a satisfying conclusion with anything. The movie just ends, without making it feel like everything is done with as well. The movie does indeed leave more questions than answers but on the other hand, you won't care enough about this movie or any of the characters to truly want to see all of the questions getting answered.

A mostly failed independent drama, that you real easily could do without.

5/10

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