About Cherry

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  • Opened September 21, 2012 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 42 min
  • NR
  • Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) is an 18-year-old on the verge of finishing high school, rushing to escape her broken family life. After reluctantly taking nude photos at her boyfriend's (Jonny Weston) behest, she takes the cash to skip town with her best friend (Dev Patel). Angelina gets a job cocktailing in a San Francisco strip club where she meets Frances (James Franco), an affluent lawyer who introduces her to a high-class world beyond her wildest dreams. At the same time, Angelina begins exploring San Francisco's porn industry, using the moniker Cherry, under the wing of a former performer turned adult film director (Heather Graham). But Angelina's newfound ideal lifestyle soon comes apart at the seams. ABOUT CHERRY challenges assumptions about sexuality and pornography, while addressing the common struggle of finding one's role in life. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Ashley Hinshaw, Lili Taylor, Dev Patel, Jonny Weston, James Franco, Heather Graham
  • Director: Stephen Elliott
  • Genres: Drama

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| James Berardinelli

Where About Cherry fails is in its depiction of interpersonal relationships. Nearly all of them are flat and uninspired. Read full review

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The A.V. Club
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Demanding everyone accept you as you are can be a way of refusing to compromise, and the film's failure to explore this aspect of the lifestyle its portraying is almost as disappointing as moralizing would be. Read full review

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Village Voice
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Setting out to reassure that certain decisions do not necessarily have fatal consequences for one's sexual morality, though, About Cherry only manages to seem inconsequential. Read full review

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New York Observer
| Rex Reed

James Franco's role hardly exists. He's a doped-up cipher who attends museum openings and drives his car into a cement wall, looking as bored and out of place as he did hosting the Academy Awards. Read full review

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A scene from "About Cherry."