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About Cherry (2012)

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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
User Ratings: 2,474

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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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Lorelei Lee, Stephen Elliott

Jan 15, 2013

$2.8k

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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.

October 4, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Here is a movie that suggests prostitution is something that just sort of happens to you, like Lyme disease.

October 4, 2012 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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This is just a slow-moving skin flick broken up by lots of boring discussions about Cherry's future.

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Post
New York Post
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The fatal flaw ... is its refusal to examine Angelina's occupation from outside the bubble. You might even call it a recruitment film.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Times
New York Times
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Everything here is done badly.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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It's pornography bathed in the tangerine glow of fruit-scented candlelight.

September 19, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Observer
New York Observer
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almost laughably unsexy

November 11, 2012 Full Review Source: Knight at the Movies
Knight at the Movies

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.

October 8, 2012 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

So much of About Cherry is meant to titillate and dramatize but never humanize.

October 5, 2012 Full Review Source: HollywoodChicago.com
HollywoodChicago.com

Generates a sensual world existing on top of the real one, where many people work non-ideal jobs simply to pay the bills.

October 4, 2012 Full Review Source: RedEye
RedEye

Flimsy and fetishized, it delivers little more than a hackneyed skin flick.

September 25, 2012 Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate
SSG Syndicate

Mediocre drama centered a young woman's introduction to the porn industry.

September 24, 2012 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Despite Hinshaw's audacious performance, the characters remain at an emotional distance.

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com
Cinemalogue.com

A muddled, inconsequential journey of a surprisingly unsympathetic character and her hazy ride to the top of the porno food chain.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Blu-ray.com
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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.

September 20, 2012 Full Review Source: AV Club
AV Club

The lack of plausible conflict mars the movie's highly commendable depiction of San Francisco as a the new porn capital.

September 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Pollyanna does 'Frisco!

September 15, 2012 Full Review Source: myfilmblog
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Audience Reviews for About Cherry

Unfocused and lazy, About Cherry is a poorly made film that's kind of pretentious. There's not much of a plot: a teen runaway heads to San Francisco and gets involved in the pornography industry. However, as provocative as the material is the film doesn't seem to know what it wants to say about it. The cast features Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, and Heather Graham, but the material limits them. Bland and superficial, About Cherry is uninspired and pointless.
March 16, 2013
Dann Michalski

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Americans have a curious relationship with porn. It's a billion dollar industry with a product enjoyed by most of the population yet it's coverage in the media would have you think it's run solely by criminals. Any films tackling the subject have always focused on the negative aspects, most of which are applicable to any get-rich-quick business, of the industry. 'About Cherry' bucks the trend, showing the world of porn as far less maladjusted than the mainstream.
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.
January 23, 2013
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