PREVIEW: Cherry (18)

WHO’S IN IT?

Tom Holland (The Devil All the Time), Ciara Bravo (To the Bone), Jack Reynor (What Richard Did), Michael Rispoli (Pain & Gain), Jeff Wahlberg (Dora and the Lost City of Gold), Forrest Goodluck (The Revenant), Michael Gandolfini (The Boy, the Dog and the Clown), Kyle Harvey (The After Party), Pooch Hall (A Dog’s Purpose), Damon Wayans Jr. (Let’s Be Cops), Thomas Lennon (Cedar Rapids), Kelli Berglund (Raising the Bar), Jose Pablo Cantillo (Elysium), Nicole Forester (Trust), Jamie Brewer (Turnover), Fionn O’Shea (The Aftermath), Sam Clemmett (Survivor), Adam Long (Spike Island)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame) and Joe Russo (Captain America: Civil War), directors, producers; Jessica Goldberg (Alex of Venice) and Angela Russo-Otstot (film debut), writers; Jake Aust (Pieces), Chris Castaldi (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil), Jonathan Gray (Bloodshot), Mike Larocca (21 Bridges) and Matthew Rhodes (Southland Tales), producers; Henry Jackman (Kingsman: The Secret Service), composer; Newton Thomas Sigel (Drive), cinematographer; Jeff Groth (Joker), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

A young man known as “Cherry” (Holland) drops out of college to enlist in the US Army, where he serves as a medic on the Iraqi battlefield. Although he returns home a war hero, the experience leaves Cherry with severe and undiagnosed PTSD, and soon he becomes addicted to the medication he is prescribed. To fund his drug addiction, he eventually turns to a life of crime…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Tom Holland is near-unrecognisable as a dangerous young man whose life spirals out of control, in this thrilling new semi-biographical thriller that sees the actor reunite with the Russo brothers for the first time post-Endgame.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 12TH MARCH 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON APPLE TV+

 

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