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Had potential....but was too unfocused....


It really felt like there was 2-3 different movies being filmed that got stuck together and left out too much from each story.

At first I thought the film was going to be about how Cherry got sucked further into the world of porn, initially just wanting to do some photos, then eventually a solo scene, girl-girl scene, and finally the boy-girl scene (something she explicitly stated at the beginning she did not want to do), beit the temptation of money or pressure from the industry, she ends up being a full fledged porn star by the end.

Then I thought the movie was about Maraget's crumbling relationship.

I think maybe the movie was trying to show the separation between work and real life that folks in the industry can distinguish between but those in relationships with them cannot, justified or not.

Both Cherry and Margaret's relationships ended up failing out of jealousy issues, yet all they could really offer up to their spouses is "it's my job" Cherry seemed pretty disillusioned that a boyfriend would be jealous over her having sex with other men, whether it was for work or not. He was pretty harsh with her in the car though even if the issues he brought up were legit. He went about it kind of sh!tty.

How Cherry ends up with Margaret in the end in an implied "relationship" was totally rushed and made no sense, and then it showed Cherry as a director, which is pretty unheard of for someone to be behind the camera so soon in their career. It's like they had no ending so they had to just hurry one up.

The whole dynamic with her roommate treating him like a pal, when it was obvious he loved her.....

I dunno, this movie had potential to be a lot better.

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I thought it would be a nice story, might've been but not as a movie
she gets everything so easily, everybody is just so nice to her
strippers, porn actresses, porn actor, directors, roommate and even the guy in the first shooting settled for what she asked for and paid her!!!
abt being a director it was unrealistic for many reasons but not the time, she spent in the new city 6 months b4 her mom visited her so she could've spent couple of years b4 becoming a director
I just thought I would watch a movie abt suffering and trouble they go through in porn, not a fairy tale where everybody is extremely nice to her as if she was their nephew and they were spoiling her like that.

"It is never about what happened, it is only how you look at it!"

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I couldnt agree more...the movie bounces all around and isnt focused.

To the point where at the end it just wraps it up in a nice little bow, and thats not what the movie was trending towards, some sort of fall for her.

Instead she breaks up with boyfriend, dumps the guy she had Friend Zoned for years, and then rushed into a lesbian relationship w/ Heather Graham, and dont worry folks, she doenst work in front of the camera anymore, she works behind it.

They literally rush the ending so they can have a Happy ending for Cherry and her Lesbian lover, while forgetting about everyone else shown in the movie.

Baldy written, unfocused, terrible conclusion

But man is the Hoosier girl Ashley Hinshaw beautiful

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