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Cherish (2002)

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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 76
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 40

The different genres in Cherish don't mesh well, and the quirkiness sometimes feels too forced.

48

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 12

The different genres in Cherish don't mesh well, and the quirkiness sometimes feels too forced.

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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 1,968

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Movie Info

Finn Taylor's quirky comedy Cherish concerns Zoe (Robin Tunney), a woman unlucky in love. She is berated at work and always seems to strike out with the opposite sex. After being asked by an attractive co-worker (Jason Priestley) to dance at a party, Zoe is kidnapped by a stalker who has fallen in love with her. During a scuffle, they accidentally kill a police officer. The stalker disappears and Zoe is charged with the crime. Soon she is under house arrest. The technician in charge of her ankle

R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Finn Taylor

Jun 1, 2004

$0.2M

Fine Line Features

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All Critics (81) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (40) | DVD (8)

An uneven mix of genres that, even when it misses the mark, gets points for originality and a good beat.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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You'll be entertained and utterly engrossed in this deceptively challenging little thriller.

July 10, 2002 Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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Suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness.

July 5, 2002 Comment
Arizona Republic
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The look and sound of something a little different.

June 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Driven by Tunney's endearingly offbeat, oddball performance.

June 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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One of those American independent comedies that suffers from a serious case of the lonely-girl cutes.

June 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Robin Tunney turns Zoe's socialization and investigation into little revelations - sculpting her magnetic, melancholy presence as perfectly as her buff body in third-act action where she sheds, and draws, blood for a climax driven by robust reclamations.

September 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

nothing more than interesting failure

June 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment

...deserves better than its early exit from theaters. How can you possibly dismiss the irrepressible Robin Tunney?

February 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | Comment

The mystery here is not the identity of the shadowy man who got Zoe into this mess, but which movie Taylor intended to emerge from Cherish's cinematic muddle.

December 1, 2003 Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short film.

May 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

A movie about mistrust of the system, personal inertia, and the melancholy stasis of everyday life.

December 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | Comment
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

It's a strained romantic comedy that starts promisingly, takes a hard left turn and slowly falls apart.

December 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

Drama-thriller-romance with lite music and heavy subtext is a slight near miss, but still fascinating.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix | Comment
Netflix

A lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | Comment
San Diego Metropolitan

...Tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character, an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope.

October 8, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "Cherish" certainly isn't dull.

September 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | Comment
Kalamazoo Gazette

Turns into the most routine of stories, its originality discarded in favor of a template for a story we've seen dozens of times before.

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Journal News (Westchester, NY) | Comment
Journal News (Westchester, NY)
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3 stars

September 18, 2010
MizturY0da
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A fresh take on the thriller genre, which really isn't a thriller most of the time, in fact the thriller elements get in the way! Robin Tunney is an (overly) talkative, socially awkward, music loving computer animator who during a sodden night out crashes and kills a cop after a mysterious stranger carjacks her and

December 19, 2009
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