Cherry Crush (2007)

Regisseur:

Nicholas DiBella

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Nicholas DiBella (written by) &
Paul Root (written by)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Werbezeile:

Who's shooting who?

Plot:

A seventeen-year-old photographer gets caught up in murder when he breaks his own rules and falls in love with one of his teenage models.

Plot Keywords:

High School | Murder Investigation | Murder | Female Nudity | Country Club

Nutzerkommentare:

Good But Not Great

Besetzung

Nikki Reed	...	Shay Bettencourt
Jonathan Tucker	...	Jordan Wells
Julie Gonzalo	...	Desiree Thomas
Michael O'Keefe	...	Detective Griffin
Haviland Morris	...	Julia Wells
Dennis Boutsikaris	...	Ben Wells
Frank Whaley	...	Wade Chandling
Alessa Neeck	...	Abbey
Christopher Jon Martin	...	Jake Miles (as Christopher Martin)
Patricia Lewis Browne	...	Older Woman
Billy Powell	...	Chemistry Teacher
Thomas Tripiciano	...	Dean Robert Mullen
Nick Lang	...	Wide Receiver
Ferdinand Jay Smith	...	DA Thomas (as Ferdinand J. Smith)
Sarah Anderson	...	Waitress

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some sexuality and nudity.

Länge:

89 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Altersfreigabe:

USA:R | Australia:M | Germany:12

Drehorte:

New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

Post Central

Soundtrack:

Dance With Me

Good But Not Great

Not bad at all, but not quite as good as I was expecting from the comments here. Jonathan Tucker does his best Toby Maguire in this story about a privileged young photographer who gets mixed up with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks.

As I watched this movie I tried to figure out what separates it from The Crush with Alicia Silverstone or Devil in the Flesh with Rose McGowan. While not directly analogous, those movies have the same type of noir lite feeling to them. But the difference is, aside from the fact that this movie really strives for believability and has decent writing, that those movies had lead actresses that really crackled on screen. I mean, you knew you were going to be seeing more of Alicia Silverstone after The Crush, or at least you should be.

Not so with Nikki Reed. She does a nice enough job and there's a restrained quality to her performance--to this whole movie really--that works well. (Too often this type of movie veers toward gushy melodrama and Cherry Crush manages to rein that in.) But again, Ms. Reed is not a show stopper. In fact, I found myself more interested in Julie Gonzalo on screen, even though she's got the boring, goody two shoes role.

What's worse is that there's no real chemistry between Reed and Tucker.

With that said, this movie has some nice touches. The high school seems especially real. The idea of being privileged is handled with respect, not given a superficial treatment. The second half of the movie becomes more involving than you expect and the ending is believable.

Overall, I liked it. But I wouldn't be surprised if I see it in the video store soon. It's better than some USA movie, but it's not quite ready for movie theaters either.