Cherry is an upcoming drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 and the directorial debut of Stephen Elliot. It is based on a script penned by Elliot and porn industry veteran, Lorelei Lee

Lorelei Lee (pornographic actress)

Lorelei Lee is the stage name of an American pornographic actress and writer.-Biography:Lorelei Lee debuted in sex industry at the age of 19. She derived her stage name from the Marilyn Monroe's character in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...

. It stars Ashley Hinshaw

Ashley Hinshaw

-Career:As a model, Hinshaw has appeared in ad campaigns for Abercrombie and Fitch. Her experience as a model lead to her guest-stint as pageant judge on the MTV reality TV series Made in 2008. A year later she appeared as herself in Gossip Girl, coming in between the relationship of Chuck Bass and...

, James Franco

James Franco

James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s...

, Heather Graham

Heather Graham

Heather Joan Graham is an American actress. She has appeared in such films as Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Lost in Space, Bowfinger, From Hell, Anger Management, and The Hangover...

 and Dev Patel

Dev Patel

Dev Patel is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...

. The project recently completed filming in San Francisco and is now in post-production.

Plot

Angelina (Hinshaw), a troubled young woman arrives in San Francisco and joins the city's porn industry. She meets a porn director (Graham) and soon becomes involved with a cocaine-addicted lawyer (Franco).

Cast

• Ashley Hinshaw
  Ashley Hinshaw
  -Career:As a model, Hinshaw has appeared in ad campaigns for Abercrombie and Fitch. Her experience as a model lead to her guest-stint as pageant judge on the MTV reality TV series Made in 2008. A year later she appeared as herself in Gossip Girl, coming in between the relationship of Chuck Bass and...
  
   as Angelina
• James Franco
  James Franco
  James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s...
  
  
• Dev Patel
  Dev Patel
  Dev Patel is a British actor. He is best known for playing Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...
  
  
• Heather Graham
  Heather Graham
  Heather Joan Graham is an American actress. She has appeared in such films as Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Lost in Space, Bowfinger, From Hell, Anger Management, and The Hangover...
  
  
• Lili Taylor
  Lili Taylor
  Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress notable for her appearances in such award-winning indie films as Mystic Pizza, Say Anything..., Short Cuts and I Shot Andy Warhol, and the acclaimed TV show Six Feet Under....
  
   as Phyllis
• Jonny Weston
• Steven Wiig
  Steven Wiig
  Steven Ray Wiig is an American film actor, director, producer and musician. He appears in the films Into the Wild under director Sean Penn, Some Kind of Monster, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and Gus Van Sant's San Francisco-based film Milk...
  
  
• Zachary Culbertson
• Ernest Waddell
  Ernest Waddell
  Ernest Waddell is a New York City-based actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles on two television series : Fin Tutuola's son Ken Randall on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Omar Little's boyfriend Dante on The Wire...
  
  as Vaughn