
Angelina is an 18-year-old girl not far from graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Bobby 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. At a strip club party in the city, she meets a wealthy lawyer named Francis, who offers to introduce her to a glamorous world of expensive dresses and lavish parties. Angelina also m... (Full plot summary below)
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Angelina is an 18-year-old girl not far from graduating from high school. Her boyfriend Bobby 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. At a strip club party in the city, she meets a wealthy lawyer named Francis, who offers to introduce her to a glamorous world of expensive dresses and lavish parties. Angelina also meets Margaret who is a lesbian and a former porn star turned adult film director. She offers Angelina, now using the porn name Cherry, direction in her entry into the San Francisco porn industry. She makes several soft pornography films before deciding to do a hardcore film. After she shoots the film, an angry Francis chastises her before getting them in a car accident. she 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 and go to Margaret's apartment to have sex. She moves in with Margaret some time afterwards and becomes her lover, and takes on a new job as a porn director.
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| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfA muddled, inconsequential journey of a surprisingly unsympathetic character and her hazy ride to the top of the porno food chain. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesDramas 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. |
| CineVueJoseph WalshPossesses some very fine moments complete with great performances, particularly from Hinshaw. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliWhere About Cherry fails is in its depiction of interpersonal relationships. Nearly all of them are flat and uninspired. |
| AV ClubAlison WillmoreDemanding 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. |
| Village VoiceRoderick HudsonSetting 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. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedJames 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. |
| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierThe lack of plausible conflict mars the movie's highly commendable depiction of San Francisco as a the new porn capital. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertProstitutes have inspired some of the most unforgettable characters in fiction. As for all of its effect on Angelina, she might as well have saved herself the wear and tear and stayed in the laundry. |
| HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoSo much of About Cherry is meant to titillate and dramatize but never humanize. |