Cherry: release date, cast, storyline, trailer release, and everything you need to know.

Cherry is an American crime drama film from 2021 that was helmed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Based on Nico Walker’s 2018 novel of the same name, Cherry is an American crime drama film from 2021 that was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a script written by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg. Alongside Jeff Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, and Ciara Bravo, Tom Holland plays the film’s title role. The movie chronicles Cherry’s journey from a college student to a warrior suffering from PTSD who robs banks to fund his and his wife’s drug addiction.

Cherry debuted in a few cinemas on February 26, 2021, and was made available for streaming on Apple TV+ on March 12. Critics gave the movie mixed reviews, praising Bravo’s and Holland’s performances but criticizing the writing and direction.

In its widest definition, crime films are a kind of cinema that are comparable to and inspired by the literary genre of crime fiction. This genre’s films typically explore a variety of facets of crime and its investigation. The genre is divided into numerous sub-genres, such as mystery, suspense, and noir, and stylistically it can merge and overlap with many other genres, such as drama or gangster cinema. It also includes comedy.

In his Screenwriters Taxonomy, writer and academic Eric R. Williams listed criminal film as one of eleven super-genres, contending that these super-genres can be used to categorize any feature-length narrative film. Action, fantasy, horror, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war, and western are the remaining eleven super-genres. Williams explains that these categories are cumulative rather than exclusive, classifying drama under the more general heading of “film type,” mystery and suspense as “macro-genres,” and film noir as a “screenwriter’s pathway.” One example of a movie that combines elements of a noir (pathway) mystery (macro-genre) and drama (film type) crime film (super-genre) is Chinatown.

Release Date

For over $40 million, Apple Original Films and Apple TV+ purchased the film’s distribution rights in September 2020.  The movie debuted in theaters on February 26, 2021, and on Apple TV+ on March 12, 2021.

This is where “Apple Original Films” reroutes. Apple Studios is used for different purposes.
See List of Apple TV+ Original Programming for a list of the original Apple TV+ shows.


Owned and run by Apple Inc., Apple TV+ is a global on-demand Internet streaming media provider with a variety of unique content, including documentaries, miniseries, series, specials, and films released under the Apple unique Films banner. A few movies were available in theaters on the same day or before to their Apple TV+ debut.

Plot

Cherry, a college student, and Emily, a classmate, fall in love immediately. Although Emily chooses to leave him to pursue her studies in Montreal, their relationship blossoms. Cherry is distraught and enlists in the Army as a doctor to escape his sadness. Emily recognizes her error and admits she is in love with Cherry too, and they are meant to be together, right before he leaves for basic training. Prior to his deployment, Cherry and Emily tie the knot.

Cherry experienced multiple traumatic events throughout his two years in the Army, including witnessing his friend Jimenez get burned and killed by an IED. As a result, Cherry now suffers from PTSD. He misuses OxyContin, a medication that a doctor gave to assist him manage his panic episodes and extreme anxiety when he gets home, which lessens his symptoms of PTSD. Emily is becoming increasingly frustrated with his growing addiction, so she starts using Cherry’s prescription to help her cope with her own anger at not knowing how to assist him without using drugs. Soon, the two develop an OxyContin and eventually heroin addiction.

He and Emily take most of the drugs locked inside for themselves after breaking into a safe he was watching over for Pills and Coke, his drug dealer. When Pills and Coke arrive a little later, they notice the empty safe.  Cherry finds out that Black, the boss of his heroin dealer, owns the safe and plans to kill all three of them for it. Cherry robs a bank and gives back the money to obtain the funds for the narcotics they used. Cherry and Emily routinely rob banks due to their daily heroin use, which causes them to experience severe withdrawals. In a hospital, Emily overdoses and nearly passes away. Emily’s mother accuses Cherry and makes her leave her alone.

After leaving her drug rehab center, Emily gets back together with Cherry. He tries to convince her that he is unfit for her and send her back. Emily tells Cherry that she does not care and that she wants to be with him, promising to do drugs again no matter what. He enlists the aid of Pills and Coke as well as his friend James Lightfoot to assist him rob several tellers at once since they need more money to sustain their addiction. The drug dealer flees during a robbery, leaving Cherry to rob the bank by herself. Cherry warns Lightfoot that Pills and Coke would probably come after him if he gets caught, so he persuades Lightfoot to turn the car around and look for him while he drives off with Lightfoot in a getaway car. When he gets in the car with Pills and Coke, he discovers that he has been shot and is heavily bleeding.

Cast

Tom Holland portraying Cherry, a made-up persona based on Nico Walker
Jack Reynor as Pills and Coke and Ciara Bravo as Emily
Tommy, played by Michael Rispoli
Jimenez, played by Jeff Wahlberg
Uncle Joe, played by Michael Gandolfini
Roy Pooch Hall played by Kyle Harvey as Sgt. Whoareyou
Bachelors with Damon Wayans Jr. as Drill Sergeant
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Madison Kowalski, played by Kelli Berglund
As Drill Sergeant Deco, José Pablo Cantillo
Nicole Forester in the role of the physician
Mark Francis in the lead prisoner’s cell
Fionn O’Shea as Arnold and Jamie Brewer as Shelly
As Yuri, Sam Clemmett
Greene as Staff Sergeant Adam Long
Shaky Boy, played by Harry Holland

A REVIEW OF THE MOVIE
Stealing is an act of extreme depravity.


In Cherry’s words, and he would know.

Though he obviously needs the money, he does not steal banks for the excitement of it, the feeling of power it gives him, or even for the money itself. He has no choice but to rob. He is made of his body. He feels like he is going to die without heroin. nor money, nor narcotics. The narcotic propels him across the streets, into the bank, and to the teller like a crop-holding jockey. Every holdup is a desperate attempt, and every dollar reveals his shame. But all is forgotten as soon as the needle enters his arm. He feels as though he is strong, in charge, and at peace once more. Until the money runs out and the heroin disappears. The jockey then gets back on the horse.

There were a lot of ifs that would have made him different.

If only Emily, his college girlfriend, had not declared her intention to go to Montreal out of fear for the relationship.

If the devastated Cherry had not enlisted in the Army.

Had he not traveled to Iraq, he would have been patrolling the so-called Triangle of Death, inch by gory inch.

If the physicians tried to help him in ways other than just writing prescriptions when he returned.

If. However, those are just ifs of the past. These days, the inquiries are clearer and more pressing: When is he going to get hit again? Next, which bank will he hit? When will the police apprehend him? Will the jockey ride him until he fades into nothingness, or will he ride him indefinitely?

According to Cherry, robbery is an act of absolute debasement.

He would also be aware.

GOOD THINGS

 
Cherry does not fall into this drug addiction maelstrom all by himself. In the end, he takes Emily with him, whom he marries before heading to Iraq.

That is certainly bad. But finally, Cherry tries to make some difficult but essential choices for the two of them once it becomes evident that their lives have spiraled out of control.

ETHICAL ELEMENTS

The movie does not show off spirituality very much. Even after Cherry and Emily tie the knot, we learn that a justice of the peace officiated the wedding (although we do catch a glimpse of a church in the distance while the pair heads out for a celebration treat). In passing, the Jesuits are mentioned in relation to the school Emily attended.

In Cherry’s dorm room, we also notice a cheap plastic lamp in the shape of an angel, which might indicate some sort of religious connection. That connection, along with the fact that Emily is regularly seen throughout the movie in an almost ethereal setting, shows that Cherry views Emily as his angel—a savior who just might be able to save him. We also appear to notice it when Emily is present.

Cherry and the others navigate pop-up cutouts of traditional Islamic figures during basic training; the soldiers referred to these characters as “Hajis,” rather sarcastically. (The phrase merely refers to a Muslim who has performed the journey to Mecca; it is not intended to be derogatory. But the way the soldiers spew that phrase out here makes it sound like a slur.) A sculpture with four heads that appears to have Hindu origins is visible.