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Directed by | Steve De Jarnatt |
Produced by | Edward R. Pressman Caldecott Chubb |
Written by | Lloyd Fonvielle (story) Michael Almereyda (screenplay) |
Starring | Melanie Griffith David Andrews Tim Thomerson Pamela Gidley |
Music by | Basil Poledouris |
Cinematography | Jacques Haitkin |
Editing by | Edward M. Abroms Duwayne Dunham |
Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
Release date(s) | November 17, 1988(VHS)[1] |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | US$10 million[2] |
Cherry 2000 is a 1987 science fiction cult film starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews.
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In the year 2017, robotic technology has made tremendous developments. Business executive Sam Treadwell's (David Andrews) "Cherry 2000" android (Pamela Gidley), short circuits during a make out session on the wet kitchen floor. He is told by a repairman that she's irreparable and finding another Cherry android will be difficult since she was a limited edition. After removing the memory chip from the old unit, Treadwell searches for a replacement, enlisting Edith "E" Johnson (Melanie Griffith), a tough tracker who guides him into the wasteland interior of a post-apocalyptic United States. She is guiding him to an abandoned manufacturing plant where he hopes to find another Cherry 2000 model. Standing in their way is Lester (Tim Thomerson), a chipper wasteland overlord and his deranged subordinates.
Cherry 2000 is widely known for the original score composed by Basil Poledouris. The soundtrack album prepared for release at the time of the film was canceled due to the film being shelved for a few years instead of receiving a theatrical release. Later, Varèse Sarabande decided to make it the debut release in their CD Club. Originally sold by mail-order for US$20 and at only 1500 copies, it became a highly valued collectible, one copy selling for $2,500 on eBay. However, for being such a touted collectors' item, the packaging for this limited edition CD was riddled with typographical errors. The track list had the incorrect length printed for the last two tracks, and two tracks were missing from the track list entirely. In 2004, Prometheus Records acquired the rights to the score and made it available in a double package with another Poledouris score, No Man's Land. The Prometheus Records release was not a limited edition and, as well as rectifying the track listing, features an additional eight minutes of unreleased music; however, it sold poorly.
Tracklisting:
Tracks 30-40 are from No Man's Land.
According to the credits, the film was shot entirely in the state of Nevada. The van plunging into an open pit was shot at Three Kids Mine. The river crossing sequence was filmed at the Hoover Dam. Scenes at the Sky Ranch were filmed at the Beehive group camping area in the Valley of Fire State Park. E.'s and Sam's first kiss was filmed in the upper reaches of the Las Vegas Wash. Adobe Flats was filmed at Eldorado Valley Dry Lake Bed. The town of Glory Hole was filmed in Goldfield, Nevada.
After its completion in December 1985,[2][3] Orion Pictures originally scheduled Cherry 2000 for a U.S. release on August 15, 1986.[4] Sometime later, the date was postponed to March 1987,[5] then September 1987.[6] The film ultimately premiered on videocassette on November 17, 1988.[1] Producer Edward R. Pressman confessed that Cherry 2000's combination of genres stumped promoters at Orion, and resulted in its continuous shelving.[2] Almost the entire movie was filmed in Nevada. The fortress like building at 8:49-8:50 is located in Commerce, Calif. at the location of a former tire factory which has been renovated and transformed into the Citadel Outlet Mall. [File:CommerceMontageCA.jpg] [1]