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Showing lots of skin but never as narratively daring. Cherry skimps on substance all around. Read critic reviews
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A teenager (Ashley Hinshaw) takes the money she earned for a photo shoot and runs away to San Francisco, where she catches the eye of both a lawyer (James Franco) and a lesbian porn director (Heather Graham).
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Stephen Elliott
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Producer: Gordon Bijelonic, Liz Destro, Rick Dugdale, Jordan Kessler, Elana Krausz, Taylor Phillips, Datari Turner
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Writer: Stephen Elliott, Lorelei Lee
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Distributor: IFC Films
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Production Co: Enderby Entertainment
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It is so irritating to see something this awfully structured and edited, full of artificial conflicts and terrible dialogue, unable to maintain focus or - even worse - offer any interesting insight into its protagonist, who in the end remains a poorly delineated sketch.
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With her mother(Lili Taylor) being an alcoholic, 18-year old Angelina(Ashley Hinshaw) is left to take care of her younger sister Jojo(Maya Raines). At the same time, Angelina desperately wants to spread her wings and live her own life. But her job at a laundromat is not going to get her far. So, she poses nude for Vaughn(Ernest Waddell). That gets her the money for her and her friend Andrew(Dev Patel) to move to San Francisco. That's where she works as a waitress in a strip club where she meets Frances(James Franco). Alternately erotic and chaste, "About Cherry" does admittedly suffer from a lack of focus at times. But it is also refreshing in it not being a garden variety cautionary tale. Rather, it is about somebody who is surrounded by cautionary tales. And it is a nice touch that the movie depicts a corner of the adult film industry as being both gay and female friendly. Out of all the surprises here, the biggest has to be the neat turn by none other than Heather Graham.
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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.
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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.
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