About Cherry
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Plot synopsis:
Angelina (Hinshaw) is an 18-year-old girl not far from graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Bobby (Weston) suggests that she take naked pictures of herself and sell them. She is initially hesitant, but eventually does the photo shoot and uses the money to run away to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew (Patel). At a strip club party in the city, Angelina meets a wealthy lawyer by the name of Francis (Franco), who offers to introduce her to a glamorous world of expensive dresses and lavish parties. Angelina also meets Margaret (Graham), a former porn star turned adult film director. Margaret offers Angelina, now using the porn name Cherry, direction in her entry into the San Francisco porn industry. Angelina makes several soft pornography films before deciding to do a hardcore film. After Angelina shoots the film, an angry Francis chastises her before getting them in a car accident. Angelina returns home to find Andrew watching one of her films. After an argument, she decides to leave and meets Margaret at a bar. They make out before returning to Margaret's apartment to have sex. The final scene is of Angelina some time afterwards, having moved in with Margaret and taken on a new job as a porn director.

Review: "About Cherry" does try hard to deliver, but it just doesn't punch hard enough to make a lasting mark.The movie trots ahead at a fairly slow, but steady, pace, which makes the movie seem to go on for a very long time.
Especially where there aren't any particular peak moments in the movie."About Cherry" is about a young girl who leaves her dysfunctional family behind and moves to San Francisco with her friend.
With her family ties and friendships on the line, Cherry balances a fine line which could easily tip her over.The story is average, although it is quite painted out in stereotypical aspects, and it is to the point where it starts to become a daytime soap show; alcoholism, pornographic business, drug abuse, family problems, and so forth.The problem with "About Cherry" is the characters in the story, as they are unfathomably one-dimensional and just doesn't really show much personality or give you enough of them to make you care.
Personally, I didn't care much for it, because it was done to the point where it was too much, bordering on being softcore pornography at times.Personally, I did find that most people in the movie did fair enough jobs with their given roles, but only a couple of them managed to stand out in the movie, and those were Dev Patel (playing Andrew), Heather Graham (playing Margaret) and Lili Taylor (playing Phyllis).I am sure if you are fans of anyone in the movie, then you might find some greater enjoyment in this movie, or if you have some kind of fascination with the way the pornographic business works, then this might be something for you.
It's like me writing a review about a movie that has a medical theme and saying that it's not accurate because of the experiences I have had with doctors...There is every type of woman and man in this industry.
I read quite a few of these reviews and I am aware that as soon as a film comes out to show a woman in the sex industry to be strong and come out on top, it gets trashed.
A lot of star power -- Heather Graham, James Franco, Dev Patel -- is wasted in cardboard roles.
Ashley Hinshaw, playing Cherry, is a beautiful actress, and looks a lot like a younger Heather Graham (no coincidence, I'm sure, in terms of their characters).
Being familiar with the website the movie's based on, I was pleased to stumble across the DVD.Whilst I'm sure that porn insiders believe they have a unique tale to tell (including our writer), the reality is that most entrants to pornography come from similar troubled backgrounds.
It's difficult to comprehend how much time passes between each stage of Angelina's process.Hinshaw's Angelina has to deal with a boyfriend and a best friend, both male, both with wildly different expectations, but similar opinions of her work.
Any film such as this will hope to use the lead character's personal relationships as a crutch, as it's the only way to bring this type of movie to life.Having recently watched this season's Hollywood Reporter Roundtable for 2013's Best Actress projected nominees, the one constant theme they agreed on was a dearth of quality material to go around.
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.
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?
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.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
A movie about a hot young woman getting into the porn industry, staring James Franco and Dev Patel?
Wrong!What I liked: I liked the fact that without watching porn, I got to see an amazingly beautiful Ashley Hinshaw tease the camera, have sex multiple times, show her breasts, and play with herself.
Cherry is left and called a disgusting whore by a man (James Franco) she was falling in love with, called a huge disappointment by her mother, and loses her best friend because of how she has chosen to make money.
A woman exercising control over her own body scares the living poop out of 95% of us men, but Cherry doesn't care too much about what people think.What I didn't like: I have seen James Franco in a lot of movies (and, of course, Freaks and Geeks) and have enjoyed each and every one.
The award for worst, most unbelievable scene goes to the part of the movie where Cherry and Patel first arrive in San Francisco.
There is not one moment of this film that feels real, and not one character that is remotely interesting or believable.
18 year old Angelina (Ashley Grace) sells naked pictures of herself to raise money to run away to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew (Dev Patel).
Lesbian former porn actress Margaret (Heather Graham) recruits her to be in her film.Ashley Hinshaw is a fashion model, and she has the acting skills to prove it.
The eighteen year-old Angeline (Ashley Hinshaw) raises money with a session of naked pictures and leaves her alcoholic and dysfunctional parents fleeing to San Francisco with her friend Andrew (Dev Patel).
Soon Angeline has a love affair with the drug-addicted lawyer Frances (James Franco) and joins the adult industry making porn.
Meanwhile the lesbian director Margaret (Heather Graham) becomes obsessed on her."About Cherry" is a movie with a pointless story of a shallow teenager without moral principles that leaves her alcoholic parents to become a porn-star.
About Cherry takes a dark journey into the adult film industry.
About Cherry follows a troubled girl who moves to San Francisco and gets involved in the porn industry and a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
This slow decent of this young woman is an interesting concept for the film to work from, but the lack of emotion throughout just left it a bit stale.
Kudos go out to the cast and crew for taking the chance to deliver an proactive movie and going towards that extra mile to deliver, but there was just numerous missed chances here.Even with the addition of great actors Heather Graham, James Franco, and Dev Patel this movie just can't handle delivering what it set out to do.
If it evokes some sort of response whether good or bad, then in the end it was an effective film.http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-dallas/bobby-blakey.
Watching this movie is like a porno trying to have a story except with hardly much nudity if that makes any sense.
The movie tries to show the spiraling down of a innocent girl who ends up joining the porno industry.
You feel very aware that it's just a checklist of story beats to get you to the end.I will say there were a couple of moments where I saw a what a good movie about this subject could be.
It's just a goofy movie about a girl who wants to be in porn for no particular reason..
This film tells the story of a young woman who enters the pornographic industry to make ends meet.The lead actress, Ashley Hinshaw, is very beautiful and sweet.
To me, "About Cherry" looks more like glamourised porn rather than a film about a young woman's tough journey..
The end is absolutely rubbish.It's a good movie if you are so bored and wanna kill some time but don't have high expectations.I would rate it 2 out of 10 but I gave 4 because acting wasn't that bad..
I don't have any experience or know anyone in the adult film industry, but I can see things like that happening (or at least similar to those depicted in the movie).
From Franco's drug addled boyfriend character turning to denigrate Cherry, to the total lack of consequence surrounding Margaret's relationship ending and her just simply replacing her former long-term live in girlfriend with Cherry.
The story of how a normal, average woman ends up in the porn industry had a lot going for it.
About Cherry — A sweet little movie about a sweet little girl and porn.
Movie's main objective is to show that circle of porn continues and people out of the circle feel disgusted from what the main character does, etc....so nothing new overall, just usual saucy scenes every now and then..
Other than that, the acting was pretty good and it was an interesting story, not just another porn-like movie..
But with her beautiful body she needs the money and knows that it earns the green colour easily so she moves to San Fran and before she can say a thing she moves from a girl online to a porn set.
What this flick had to show is that once you are into the porn industry you can't leave it that easy.I came across this flick due James Franco being in it but he isn't in it that long and his character doesn't work at all.
Be advised that this flick has a lot of nudity and especially from Ashley Hinshaw who plays Angelina or once a porn star Cherry.
For me the decay that should be seen from Cherry isn't there, she's doing it all with a big smile, leaving friends and family behind, going for the money and having a lesbian relation with her boss...Gore 0/5 Nudity 3/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5.
I was intrigued by the title and in tandem expected an untold story.But, what About Cherry delivers has already been read, filmed, published, sung or even enacted a hundred times.
The porn aura made it look gaudy but yes, now I completely know how they make an actual porn movie & how girls fall prey into the multi-billion dollar worth industry.Performances are good enough with Ashley & Heather doing good.
NOMessage: Where there is money, may always not be the right path.Profanity: Mediocre | Porn: Critical | Sex: Critical | Nudity: Very Critical | Smoking: Mediocre | Alcohol: Mediocre | Drugs: Mild | Vulgarity: Mild | Violence: Very Mild | Gore: No. Well done, very subtle film gives one look at modern state of adult film industry.
Or the brief scene when Angelina (the character who becomes "Cherry" when entering the adult industry) is asleep with her younger sister on some couch-bed (maybe the family is too poor for the entire family to have bedrooms?) and feels the menacing presence of her step-father that leaves the attentive viewer a thick taste of some muddied history of abuse.
I like how the movie shows a porn actress actually turning down cocaine.
I also like the lesbianism in the movie because it's absolutely true that female adult actresses often grow more romantically fulfilled with women after years of essentially being used and dominated by testosterone.As a resident of Northern California, in close proximity to San Francisco, and having spent time recently at The Armory (home to the real adult film studios that much of About Cherry was shot at), I especially like how the film gave an honest picture of the current evolution that the industry is witnessing.
Instead of simply feeling pressure from the expectation to be just an object, the adult film industry of Northern California is creating a culture of permission-based, fantasy oriented, sex-positive healthy exploration and weaving that into film production.
There is an attempt to even integrate more artistic and enlightened practices to the adult film productions as well.Although details of the adult industry, the character's thoughts, and the dark background of the story may have been left out of About Cherry, I consider both the content and presentation of this movie to be exceptional.
The main character was strong, independent, and the film described a journey, a coming of age.Many corners were turned, by several of the cast.I felt the story had great heart.
I do think it's relatively easy to find a room for rent in a big city if you are not picky.I also think that many people in the adult film industry like sex and money, and have no guilty complex about what they do.
Great cast which includes Heather Graham and Dev Patel who are not even in leading roles but overall this movie lacks the edge it needs to really grab your attention.
I believe we have watched them 'making-of-porn films' before: 'Boogie Nights, 1997'; '8mm, 1999'; 'Wonderland, 2003'; 'The Girlfriend Experience, 2009' and so it goes.
I disliked the lead character, played brilliantly by Ashley Hinshaw who is mostly holding back her emotions throughout the film, well at least more than her clothes.
Getting laid every damn day and getting paid for it and also enjoying it (to hell with the tears, we've seen them done better) – as the movie suggests makes me not like anyone but Dev Patel's character.
Someday a movie is going to be made that will take us inside the adult film industry to show us the reality of what goes on there, and what happens to the people who operate within it.
Here is a movie that promises sex but plays like a dull soap opera with a little nudity thrown in here and there.
It doesn't have any characters for us to care about nor any of the "good parts" that a lot of moviegoers will be hoping for.The movie stars Ashley Hinsaw as Angelina, a twenty-something who lives at home with her alcoholic mother (Lili Taylor) and her mom's abusive boyfriend.
Angelina gets involved in the adult film industry and starts making money.
Their breakup scene, in which they have angry sex, is silly and awkward and disturbingly voyeuristic."About Cherry" comes from first-time director Stephen Elliott who co-wrote the screenplay with real-life porn star Lorelei Lee. Their script is a mess.
I clocked this film on Sky Movies On Demand and decided to watch it based on its plot summary.
The plot summary really over-sells this film and made me believe that it actually might be a good film (I didn't look at its IMDb rating prior to watching it).The problem with this film is that it just seems to lack any sort of depth; this extends to both the plot and its characters.
Cherry then has a bust up with her friend Andrew when she catches him watching porn.
I think the worst part of this film is that it felt like it had no message and nothing to say; I mean Cherry is arguably happier at the end than she was at the start?
Whilst I think that saying this glamorises the industry is perhaps going a bit too far, I did feel that it didn't explore the downsides very well and for me that's sending out a fairly dangerous message (particularly to younger viewers).Personally, I found this film to be shallow and somewhat pointless.
And obviously it's perfectly safe for an 18 year old white trash girl to get into porn, because obviously nothing bad is going to happen to her and obviously all the nice people that work in the porn industry are going to look after her best interests.
There was so much material that could and should have been developed into two projects.Things like: (1.) The evolution of Andrew's relationship with Angelica as a Porn star.
After the line, I assumed the 'writer' had a meteor fall from outer space and squash Cherry, not just the character but the whole movie to little stupid bits of space pigeon poop.
I get that this film aims to challenge our perception of working girls, by showing us not all female sex workers are manipulated or forced into the porn industry against their will.
disgust me." James Franco, as "cokehead" trial lawyer Francis, 18-year-old title porn starlet "Cherry's" (nee Angelina) short-term sugar daddy, seems out-of-character in his kiss-off remarks to her, and certainly not very WWCD (that is, What Would Charlie Sheen Do).
This is a slightly interesting film that moves very deliberately and not much happens.It is primarily the story of an 18-yr-old L.A. area girl that takes off to San Francisco to make her path in life.
This one found her way into the porn industry, starting with girl-on-girl and eventually to girl-guy stuff, and eventually to the producer who screens new talent.Ashley Hinshaw, who was probably 22, is Angelina, and when she gets into the adult film roles calls herself 'Cherry.' She travels there with her good friend, Dev Patel as Andrew, who views her as his ideal girl, but that romance was never to be.
He is played by James Franco as Frances.I had put this movie on my list a couple of years ago when I noted that Heather Graham is in it, but here she just plays one of the porn producers who is in an 8-year lesbian relationship.
Several of the actresses are actually in the porn film business.And interesting movie, it probably portrays that industry fairly accurately, and how pretty young girls with no particular direction in life get into the business.
But it is just interesting and its rating is about right.SPOILERS: In the end when her guy friends don't pan out she becomes the new partner of Heather Graham's character.
Maybe this is the idea of the film; in that men can be viewed as superfluous and shallow, her doting male friend is used by Cherry but his devotion is never reciprocated nor is his hidden longing for a more personal relationship.