Undescribable Perfection

Lack of good storyline.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Expected more

In San Francisco, Zoe (Robin Tunney) is a shy and outcast in her working place that adores the love songs she listens to the radio. Zoe goes to a bar with her coworkers and she spends the night talking to a colleague that also like mushy songs. She drinks with him and when she goes to her car to take her cellular to call a taxi, a stalker forces her to drive away. A police officer sees the intruder in her car and asks her to stop the car. However, the guy forces Zoe to run over the policeman that is hit and dies. Zoe has a car accident and the aggressor escapes.Neither the police nor her defense lawyer believes on her words and Zoe is arrested for murdering the policeman. She is confined at home with an ankle bracelet under the surveillance of Daly (Tim Blake Nelson), a lonely man that falls in love with Zoe. She tries to find a way to leave the spot to chase the criminal and prove her innocence.I bought "Cherish" on DVD a long time ago, and only today I have watched it. It was a pleasant surprise, since Robin Tunney and the music score with wonderful songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's make this good low- budget film also delightful. The conclusion is satisfactory but could be better and better. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "No Lugar e na Hora Errada" ("In the Wrong Place and Time")

(No, seriously, I am going to spoil you. May lightning strike my annoying neighbors if I lie.) This is not a love story. Not exactly.See, I went into "Cherish" thinking it would be a lot heavier on the romantic comedy and not so much on the suspense. The trailer I saw was misleading that way. The truth is that it's a story about a quirky girl who finds herself in a boatload of trouble, and somewhere in there is a man with whom she could be quite happy--but the film zigged where I'd have zagged, and so there is no on-screen payoff for Zoe and Daly. Given the chemistry between them, that disappointed me. Still, it was worth the two hours and fifteen minutes I spent watching it on IFC, and Robin Tunney is charming as all-get-out. Also, I now want to explore the crawl space in the closet in the next room over.

I mean,really,how DO you describe or categorize a film that goes as such:A shy,awkward young woman named Zoe(Robin Tunney,getting a rare chance to truly shine)loses herself in her music,even while at work. In an attempt to become more sociable,she goes to a club to be with the office Lothario(Jason Priestley),where she subsequently gets fairly drunk. In a moment of utter absent-mindedness,she allows for a guy who's been stalking her to invade her car,hi-jacking her and killing a police officer with her vehicle. He gets away in the ensuing wreck,leaving her behind to suffer the consequences.Able to avoid serious jail time(At least until trial),she is instead placed on "House arrest" and monitored by ankle bracelet,and thus developing a relationship with the deputy/technician(Tim Blake Nelson)charged with installing and checking the device. But as she is holed up in a large apartment dwelling in a rough part of town,her amount of cabin fever and her increasing desire to find the man who framed her for the crime,she becomes more restless and more willing to break free,placing her,fate both long-term and immediate,in serious jeopardy.Directed and written by Finn TAylor,this film sort of glides in and out of being a romantic comedy,a thriller and a complex character drama. While the film seems to move at a didactic pace that almost defies the viewer to wonder what is the purpose or aim of the film,but the acting(particularly from Tunney,Nelson and Brad Hunt,as the stalker),the uniqueness of story and the enthusiastically retro soundtrack(peppered with '80s pop hits)make this film tough to forget. I found myself drawn to see this again after first renting it as an afterthought. Give it a try and maybe you'll feel the same,too.

This is one of my favorite independent films. Yeah, the storyline may not be original, but Robin Tunney and Tim Blake Nelson do such a good job that you just love their characters (at least I did) and you want everything to turn out well for them. When I saw this in the theater originally, I loved the soundtrack, as it fit the storyline so well. The 80s songs featured are so cheesy and they fit the stalker theme. This film is so obviously low budget, but the actors involved made the story interesting, and I got so wrapped up in the story that I didn't care about the "little things." The DVD is well made, with an entertaining commentary track and an interesting "making of" featurette. What more could a film geek want?