Could be better!
Added 1/30/2009
This movie has some strange twists to it. I think the story could have been a little better with some rewrites. Rachel is HOT!!!!
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True to Life.
Added 1/10/2009
Very few can know the lifestyle options available to Reverge Anselmo. ONLY he can capture it cinematically to let us in on it. Thank You, Reverge, for the depth of character to live through the challenges dealt you, and thank you for the artistic talent to share these experiences with us. God Bless you on your way!
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Little movie, big entertainment
Added 5/18/2008
I'd never heard of this when I got it out of the library. Very surprisingly well done love story about a mentally ill teen actress and her juvenile delinquent/soldier boyfriend with a sensitive side. Good script and nuanced acting make this one a cut above.
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A Coming-of-Age, True Story with Lots of Heart!
Added 3/2/2008
This film is based on a true story (of the writer/director's own life as a teen) and it revolves around the unlikely romance between a schizophrenic starlet & a young, silver spoon marine--who must serve his country or serve prison time--and how his life is changed by their romance & his military service. The film offers some very tender, touching, & heartwrenching moments and the romance is great & really believable. The stars have great romantic chemistry & the relationship is very realistic and reaffirming. They are a couple you find yourself rooting for & believing in.
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Great Acting.
Added 1/4/2007
One of the best , least seen movies in years. Great screenplay, fabulous acting. A MUST SEE.
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Really a good movie
Added 2/1/2009
I truly enjoyed this movie. Good acting, great story, a bit of film Noir!!
Recommend this purchase as you will want to watch this DVD a few times just for the neat story twist.
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Suspense, Without Bad Language
Added 1/9/2009
I don't think many would say this is a great movie, but it does have a few qualities that would make it of interest to traditional values families. The first is the language; I can recall only one instance of any kind of objectionable language. Considering many of today's movies, that is a welcome relief. There is one passing scene pertaining to sex, but it clearly is not the focus of the move. This, in spite of the fact that Jordan was kicked out of his prep school for taking glamour photos of some of the girls.
At its core, this is a movie about lying and about making good decisions, even as a teenager. The first homicide occurred when Shay's married 'boyfriend' started to attack her and Jordan rushes to her rescue. Next thing you know, Jordan is on the ground being beaten by the adult man. Shay grabs a small log and hits the adult on his head, killing him. Clearly, this would be classified as self defense, something as wealthy a kid as Jordan's lawyer could have won if they were even charged. Instead of doing the right thing, Jordan and Shay try to cover up the death. Thus begins a 'need' to lie over and over again, until the end of the movie. Parents who show this movie to their teens would have a great opportunity to point out how making the wrong choice creates one mess after another.
It is refreshing to see a 'suspense' movie nearly devoid of bad language or hyped sex. And, make no mistake about it, most people, especially teens, would probably find this to be as suspenseful as any similar movie. I am grading it down one level because the unexpected ending, while very clever, would not be the action that a person of high character would do.
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Okay, how did I start watching this picture? I liked the title, which refers to a certain shade of lipstick or nail polish favored by the heroine, Shay Bettencourt (Nikki Reed) which attracts the boy she wants, wealthy young preppy Jordan (Jonathan Tucker). Jordan's insistent neo-noir narration plays continually over the pretty pictures CHERRY CRUSH delivers, and you get tired of him saying over and over again, "A good photographer captures his subject," significant pause, while the camera pans over 4,000 more vacuous shots of Shay in prim lingerie--then the capper, "But a good subject captures her photographer." Staccato burst of horns. It makes sense, sort of, but it depends on chemistry, and Tucker and Reed are no William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. Oh what a mess this movie is, on every level. Number one, it was ludicrous to set this noir thriller in high school.
I know, I know, BRICK did it well, but BRICK was more a story of gangsters and turf and money, whereas CHERRY CRUSH wants to revel in the whole forbidden love POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE thing. It still could work, maybe, but why hire Jonathan Tucker to play a high school student? The guy looks like he's about 40 and a CPA. When he's sitting next to Frank Whaley at a bar, Whaley looks younger. Well, he wasn't directed to keep an absolutely deadpan face with no expression, whereas Tucker looks as though they injected curare into his facial muscles every morning at the beginning of the shoot. There's a whole plot in which Jordan is supposed to be on the working board of a huge arts organization in order for his CV to look good when he applies to Cornell. Jordan (and his girlfriend, equally late 30ish, but apparently also supposed to be 17) is thrust into heavy million dollar fundraising, well, I don't think so. Why even have that plot, it is so ludicrous. There must be a million other ways to show Jordan at the mercy of a powerful Ari-Gold type of dad who rules him with an iron glove, so that we should sympathize with his need to be free in some aspect of his wealthy young life, even if it means picking up the trashiest girl in town and becoming part of her web of sin, lies and murder.
The biggest problem is Nikki Reed as the vamp--totally inadequate. She looks like a little girl trying on mommy's wedding gown.
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