From my favorite movies..

An absolute waste of money

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

I was going to rate this about an 8 or so.... until the last couple minutes! This was the worst, most abrupt ending I've ever seen, leaving many questions unanswered and loose ends straggling. I actually ended up rewinding a bit the first time, thinking the disc had skipped or something. Nope, it's just a really horribly done ending. Other than that, the acting was pretty good and it was an interesting story, not just another porn-like movie.

I actually have no problem believing this plot or any of its details. I think there are some white trash teens in Long Beach. I think that many doors are open to a beautiful young blonde. 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. I do think that she could have made plenty of money serving drinks and/or stripping. But it's not really a problem, because she went the next step because she simply wanted to.It was basically a reality show. The main blonde showed the proper range of emotions in the handful of scenes requiring it, and Lili Taylor was fine.But don't expect to feel enlightened or moved. It's not that kind of picture. The only point is that a hot blonde found a home in the adult industry without being forced.If you're tuning in mainly to see her body, then you get just the right amount of teasers. The question is why you would want to see this movie for any other reason. It's slow, makes no good philosophical points, has no memorable soundtrack, no action, and limited decent dialog.I feel like taking a shower, and I truly regret watching this.

This is a well acted and interesting film. It is a drama, nothing more and nothing less. About Cherry fails to offer any real depth to any of the characters. The characters seem incidental to the storyline, which can be adapted to so many different scenarios. In this case we have the neglected but well intentioned, relatively innocent young adult who spirals from selling herself to a small time adult photographer "upto" performing for a professional pornography studio. Cherry, the title character moves from Long Beach to a low rent accommodation in San Francisco to escape the clutches of an alcoholic and self obsessed mother and apparently predatory father. Cherry meets a seemingly ideal man, a lawyer no less, whose only downfall is his drug habit, their relationship fails as he becomes repulsed by the thought of his partner having sex with other men for payment. We never get to "know" this boyfriend he is just a part of the scenery to build the film around, the father is also treated in the same way, with only a few words spoken. Her male friend, who travels with her to SF is explored in more depth, but the viewer still only a gets a peripheral insight into his life. 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. The twist at the end of film also seems to bear out the main point of the film, that women can succeed despite the interference of men, with Cherry now directing the pornographic films from behind the camera.

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). They rent a room in the apartment of the gay Paco (Vincent Palo) and Angeline finds a job in a strip club and Andrew in a bookstore. 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. The characters are poorly developed and most of them are unlikable. Angeline is actually a bisexual teenager without any moral principle and maybe nymphomaniac. The situations are also shallow and the movie is neither a drama or romance nor a soft-porn. The only thing that worths is the beauty of the lead actress. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Doce Tentação"