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Under the Cherry Moon

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Under the Cherry Moon (1986)

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Reviews Counted: 21

Fresh: 6

Rotten:15

Average Rating: 3.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Synopsis: With his best friend, a young musician travels to the beautiful French Riviera in search of quick riches. Instead, he falls in love with an extremely attractive and equally spoiled heiress. The top-of-the-charts soundtrack features... With his best friend, a young musician travels to the beautiful French Riviera in search of quick riches. Instead, he falls in love with an extremely attractive and equally spoiled heiress. The top-of-the-charts soundtrack features Prince and the Revolution performing such hits as "Kiss," "Mountains," "Under the Cherry Moon," and many more. [More]

Starring: Prince, Jerome Benton, Francesca Annis, Kristin Scott Thomas

Starring: Prince, Jerome Benton, Francesca Annis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Sallet

Director: Prince

Director: Prince

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Shot in black-and-white in an attempt to evoke the sophisticated burr of '40s films, its intent is hamstrung by over-familiar gags, though the script comes more to life when Prince and Benton lapse into black street talk.

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06/24/06
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For a preposterous vanity project and notorious cinematic turkey, Under The Cherry Moon is actually rather charming, rakish and amusing.

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05/24/03
Matthew De Abaitua
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Ss flat and uninteresting as a newsreel from the 1930s about vacationing in the south of France.

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01/15/08
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The whole film plays exactly for what it is, one long essay in ego massaging.

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01/15/08
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01/19/07
Jake Euker
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07/06/05
Emanuel Levy
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12/27/04
Michael Dequina
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Makes you forget how good "Purple Rain" is.

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12/18/04
Michael A. Smith
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Just buy the soundtrack. The movie's an embarrasment.

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11/11/04
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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a colossal bore

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08/22/04
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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For all those out there who can't get enough of Prince, Under the Cherry Moon may be just the antidote.

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05/21/03
Walter Goodman
New York Times
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Strictly for Prince fans, but then again I am one.

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12/30/02
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
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12/19/02
Brandon Judell
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All these years later I'm still kinda stunned that someone let PRINCE direct his own movie.

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11/22/02
Scott Weinberg
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10/17/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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Prince should stick to what he calls singing, because he can't act.

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08/22/02
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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a few good tunes, but how self-adoring can a star be?

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08/04/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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Great looking, strange, not very effective, but an interesting effort

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07/30/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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07/29/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Prince wants to ride atop the float, receiving the crowd's adulation, but he's also larking about down in the street, happy to be one of the clowns.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Salon.com
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