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recently discovered this wonderful website and it didn't take long to realize that "Cherry 2000" (to my surprise) was not listed! This sent me immediately to the IMDB site to verify Cherry was an 80's flick which I was fairly sure it was. Yep, 1987. What a wonderful opportunity to contribute to a marvelous internet resource!
Cherry 2000 is a gem in the crown of one of my favorite genre's: low budget sci-fi. When a low budget sci-fi clicks it's due to creative film production, quirky characters, dialogue and acting to back it all up. As opposed to big budget which is usually carried by a superstar cast, advertising and special effects. Also the more memorable low budget titles have a delicious liberal sprinkling of humor, something sci-fi in general, both in media and text form, often lacks!
Ok to the story... Our hero Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) is a lower management corporate type living in Anaheim, Calif. He has no interest in going out with his buddies to nightclubs to pick up real-life women. Cuz he already has, in his mind, the perfect life partner waiting for him at home. A synthetic female android, (Pamela Gidley -VaVoom!) model Cherry 2000! She cooks, she cleans, she has sex at his very whim! What more can anybody ask for?
Unfortunetly, one night while Cherry is washing the dishes by hand, they decide its a good time to get romantic. While they're doing the wild thing on the kitchen floor, the soap and water backs up over the sink and shorts out poor Cherry! Sam rushes her to a robot shop but all the technician can do is salvage her chip containing her memories and personality. Her CPU and servos are fried for good. The tech tries to interest sam into another model of robot but none compare to Cherry.
It seems they just dont make 'em like they used to...
So Sam is forced to leave the city, out into the wastelands known as the zones, in search of the now defunct factory (The Yard) that made Cherry. His only chance to be reunited with the machine he loves.
And so, his adventure begins...
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What really makes this film shine is a young Melanie Griffith who plays Edith, a tracker (sort of a wasteland detective and guide) helping Sam find another Cherry 2000 and Ben Johnson as Six-Fingered Jake. The retired tracker who taught Edith everthing she knows.
Jake: "You gonna tell me what you and speed are doin out here"?
Edith: "Were just goin into the yard to get one of those sex robots for Sam, his old one broke down from overexertion it sounds like"!
Other notable performances are Tim Thomerson (Trancers, 1985) as Lester, the wasteland gang-leader.
Cameron Milzner as Elaine aka Ginger, Lesters whacky girlfriend.
Ginger: "You guys want some sandwiches"?
Gangmember: "Lesters dead"!
Ginger: "Well, no sandwiches for him"!
If you enjoyed titles like, "The Night of the Comet", "The last Starfighter" or "Circuitry Man", then give "Cherry 2000" a try. It's well worth the rental fee!
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Watch for a very short cameo by Lawrence Fishburne (The Matrix, 1999) and also the ever reliable Brion James (Leon in Blade Runner, 1982) 
David Andrews' (Sam) movie debut was in the 1984 horror classic Nightmare On Elm Street. -Thanks to Kara Petty
Pamela Gidley was a successful model in the 1980's. She appeared in Seventeen magazine, and at least once she was its cover model. She also won a televised beauty contest in the 80's called "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." -Thanks to Celeste Harmer
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Two hours west from Vegas is Beatty, Nevada. A few miles beyond are Beatty Dunes, west of US 95 and accessible by graded dirt road. This romantic feature was the setting for much of the movie Cherry 2000.
Nearby, the ruins of the ghost town Rhyolite, a gold rush city was used as the "fringe" of humanity as ourt heroes head in to the Lester's zone.
Lester's Sky Ranch is one hour north on Vegas in Valley of Fire State Park.
The creepy hotel in the movie is the "Goldfield Hotel" in another ghost town, Goldfield, Nevada, an hour or so north of Beatty. This was once the grandest hotel in Nevada. It is rumored the film crew for Cherry 2000 refused to take up lodging at night in the Goldfield Hotel during the filming in fear of the spirits. Even in the daytime film equipment unexpectectly failed and noises were heard that scared the crap out of the extras. The Eye seen on the wall in the movie is still to this day visible on a nearby building.
The Hoover dam was, of course, also used for the scenes with the water tunnels.
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Cherry 2000's wonderful score by Basil Poledouris was released as part of the rare valuable Varèse CD Club in 1993 and has been scarily rare ever since. There only a couple of hundred legitimate copies of this in existence and legend has one buyer paying $2,500 for a copy in 1997!
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