About Cherry (2012)
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A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
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63
Where About Cherry fails is in its depiction of interpersonal relationships. Nearly all of them are flat and uninspired.
58
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.
50
Slant Magazine
The lack of plausible conflict mars the movie's highly commendable depiction of San Francisco as a the new porn capital.
50
Village Voice
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.
50
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.
