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 CAST: KAREN BLACK, MICHAEL EMIL, MICHAEL MARGOTTA, MARTIN HARVEY FRIEDBERG, LARRY DAVID AND INTRODUCING FRANCES FISHER.

1983 90 min. Color R.

Zee (Karen Black) is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk cafe she runs into Eli (Michael Emil) and a very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city.
 

"'CHERRY PIE' IS A UNIQUE , MEMORABLE AND DARING FILM - AS FRESH, SWEET AND PIQUANT AS THE EDIBLE IN ITS TITLE, AS LOOSE AND UNEXPECTED AS LIFE, BUT AS SHAPED AND WITTY AS A GREAT SHORT STORY. IT IS WITHOUT ANY EASY COMPARISON IN THE WHOLE RANGE OF AMERICAN MOVIES. Karen Black is as good as the women who posed for August Renoir's nudes: We feel the whole person - nervy but serene, eccentric but vulnerable, merry and pained, naive and profound. Her performance deserves to be counted in the list of great film work by American actresses!"

-DAVID THOMSON, SIGHT AND SOUND

 
"A SPARKLING, OFF-BEAT ROMANTIC COMEDY, THE FRESHNESS OF 'CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE?' LIES IN JAGLOM'S BREEZY APPROACH AND IN HIS ACCEPTANCE THAT CRUELTY, AS DEPLORABLE AS IT IS, IS AT TIMES INEVITABLY AS MUCH A PART OF EMOTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AS KINDNESS. From Karen Black, who can seem alternately gorgeous and bedraggled, joyous and defeated, Jaglom has gotten one of her finest portrayals and surely her best comic performance."
-KEVIN THOMAS, LOS ANGELES TIMES
 
"A MARVELOUS EXPLORATION OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, true and tender and radiantly droll. This can only be the work of Henry Jaglom, who struck comic gold with 'SITTING DUCKS' and now has done it again!"
-DAVID ROBINSON, THE TIMES, LONDON
 
"A SORT OF 'ANNIE HALL' DRAWN IN CRAYON. In a series of bold, oblique strokes, Henry Jaglom creates a wonderful world of fragile, mutually-dependent relationships!"
-PHILIP FRENCH, THE OBSERVER, LONDON
 
"A wholly individual comic film, whose characters as in all Jaglom movies are immensely attractive dreamers. 'CHERRY PIE' IS WONDERFULLY MODERN, EXPERTLY BUILT AND VERY, VERY FUNNY!"
-JOHN PYM, SIGHT AND SOUND
 

"A NEUROTIC ROMANCE THAT IS A DELIGHTFUL, LIFE-ENHANCING ANTIDOTE TO THE DEATH WISHES OF THE OTHER FILMS ABOUT TOWN. KAREN BLACK AND MICHAEL EMIL ARE A SENSATIONAL DUO!"

-TOM HUTCHINSON, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY, LONDON

 

"Tremendously funny - a kind of cinematic Balzacian slice of life. HENRY JAGLOM IS MUCH MORE PERCEPTIVE AND HUMANE THAN HIS OBVIOUS COMPETITOR WOODY ALLEN AND 'CHERRY PIE' IS A MUCH MORE HUMANLY REWARDING FILM THAN ARE ALLEN'S."

-HELEN MCNEIL, BBC