Cherry [HD]

Fascinating film about love/friendship
CHERRY: THE MOVIE

This is a complicatd and entertaining film about human nature, with a twist. Love Vs. Lust; Friendship Vs. love and good vs evil. A love triangle that keeps you on the seat of your chair....you may know whats going to happen....but find yourself not wanting it to really happen...even tho it is inevitable. A bit of a surprise twist at the end.....

Excellent acting; excellent writing; director Quinn Saunders does an amazing job of developing the characters with the intersting use of color, language, appearance and a set that shows a bit of the "seedy" side of LA that sets the tone for the film. I loved it...and didn't want it to end....
rented from Amazon.

Above average movie, hampered by weak lead
The movie itself is thought provoking and reasonably well written, although Sam's verbal vulgarity at the start was nearly overpowering. It wallowed quite a bit in the middle, but hang in there, the ending was very taught, I truly did not know which way it would go.

I might have stretched and given it 4 stars, but the acting of David Crane as Cherry was ... not very good. I probably acted about as well in high school (and that is not a compliment). The other two leads (Jules, Sam) were both very strong, but that really doesn't undo the damage to my immersion that Crane's acting created. Maybe Crane thought the more he exaggerated Cherry's puppy-dog patheticism, the more "sensitive" the viewer would perceive him? All it did for me was create a growing sense of annoyance, and make consciously wonder, how could these guys have ever become friends? (come to think of it, maybe Sam was played as an extreme caricature too, the non-stop vulgarity at the start in the...



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