About Cherry (2012)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 17
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Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 2.4/5
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Movie Info
Cherry is about Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw), an 18-year-old girl on the verge of finishing high school. Angelina's family life is difficult. Her mother (Lili Taylor) is an alcoholic and her step-father is violent and unpredictable. One morning her boyfriend (Jonny Weston) suggests she take naked pictures for money. She balks at first but then does the photo shoot, using the money to run-off with her best friend (Dev Patel) to San Francisco. In San Francisco, while cocktailing in a strip club,
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Cast
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Ashley Hinshaw
Angelina -
Lili Taylor
Phyllis -
Dev Patel
Andrew -
Jonny Weston
Bobby -
James Franco
Frances -
Heather Graham
Margaret -
Diane Farr
Jillian -
Maya Donato
JoJo -
Vincent Palo
Paco -
Elan Krausz
Lana -
Lorelei Lee
Sophie -
K. Lee
Sweet -
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Robert Nelson
Officer -
Viva Celso
Viva Nova -
Cully Fredricksen
Pool Player 1 -
James Anthony Cotton
Bartender 2 -
Donald Lacy, Jr.
Pool Player 2 -
Nkechi Odina
Tanya -
Ernest Waddell
Vaughn -
Sarah Curtiss
Brande -
Ben Simonetti
Miller -
Nelson Lee
Jessica -
Megan Boone
Jake -
Karyn Hunt
Karyn -
Jordan Kessler
Paul -
Momo Juniper Hurley
Evany -
Mike Bessoni
Chuck -
Melissa Tan
Chellis -
Tom McGraw
Customer 1 -
Darryl Fong
Man 1 -
Dennis Smith
Man 2 -
Amy Huckabay
Sheila -
Patrick Alparone
Rudy -
Dan Weiss
Danny -
Tim Lewis
Duke -
Peter Alton
Director 3 -
Windy Chien
Audrey -
Ricky Saenz
Worker 1 -
Mark Silversten
Worker 3 -
Peter Kepler
Co-Worker 1 -
Tristin Hagen
Girl 1 -
Andy Miller
Manager -
Veronica Valencia
Amber -
Sensi Pearl
Vicki -
Leo Gaelan McKeown Hickel
Bartender -
Nina Ljeti
Nina -
Sean Thomas
Waiter -
Alexa Inkeles
Terra -
Isaac Fitzgerald
Mike
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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (17)
Dramas about the porn industry range from expressions of puritanical rage to celebrations of open sexuality; this one manages to avoid both extremes, as well as anything else that might make it worth watching.
Top CriticHere is a movie that suggests prostitution is something that just sort of happens to you, like Lyme disease.
This is just a slow-moving skin flick broken up by lots of boring discussions about Cherry's future.
The fatal flaw ... is its refusal to examine Angelina's occupation from outside the bubble. You might even call it a recruitment film.
Everything here is done badly.
It's pornography bathed in the tangerine glow of fruit-scented candlelight.
almost laughably unsexy
Rather shockingly lacking in dynamic plotting, the film descends into mystifying incomprehensibility in its final reels, showing a lack of understanding of basic human motivations.
So much of About Cherry is meant to titillate and dramatize but never humanize.
Generates a sensual world existing on top of the real one, where many people work non-ideal jobs simply to pay the bills.
Flimsy and fetishized, it delivers little more than a hackneyed skin flick.
Mediocre drama centered a young woman's introduction to the porn industry.
Despite Hinshaw's audacious performance, the characters remain at an emotional distance.
A muddled, inconsequential journey of a surprisingly unsympathetic character and her hazy ride to the top of the porno food chain.
It has a didactic undercurrent, making its main character into a beautiful blank, ready to blossom under the bright camera lights and to be unabashed in the face of the unenlightened.
The lack of plausible conflict mars the movie's highly commendable depiction of San Francisco as a the new porn capital.
Pollyanna does 'Frisco!
Audience Reviews for About Cherry
Super Reviewer
Hinshaw does a good job in the lead role and is undoubtedly a star in the making. The film itself is quite a bore, filled with cliched characters like the manipulative alcoholic mother (Taylor), the disapproving boyfriend (Franco), and the platonic friend (Patel) who can't express his true feelings for our protagonist.
Hinshaw's breasts aside, there's nothing here we haven't seen before.
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Foreign Titles
- Cherry (FR)
