Very Cool!!!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

In San Francisco, Zoe (Robin Tunney) is a shy and outcast in her working place that adores the love songs she listens to the radio. Zoe goes to a bar with her coworkers and she spends the night talking to a colleague that also like mushy songs. She drinks with him and when she goes to her car to take her cellular to call a taxi, a stalker forces her to drive away. A police officer sees the intruder in her car and asks her to stop the car. However, the guy forces Zoe to run over the policeman that is hit and dies. Zoe has a car accident and the aggressor escapes.Neither the police nor her defense lawyer believes on her words and Zoe is arrested for murdering the policeman. She is confined at home with an ankle bracelet under the surveillance of Daly (Tim Blake Nelson), a lonely man that falls in love with Zoe. She tries to find a way to leave the spot to chase the criminal and prove her innocence.I bought "Cherish" on DVD a long time ago, and only today I have watched it. It was a pleasant surprise, since Robin Tunney and the music score with wonderful songs from the 60's, 70's and 80's make this good low- budget film also delightful. The conclusion is satisfactory but could be better and better. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "No Lugar e na Hora Errada" ("In the Wrong Place and Time")

Robin Tunney is Zoe, quite ditzy and a bit of a romantic. She loves music and regularly gets in trouble with her supervisor at work because she listens on her headphones and gets distracted.Zoe gets herself invited to a party and, mesmerized by Jason Priestley as Andrew, their boss at work, she drinks too much. Andrew offers to drive her home but she ends up going it alone ... until a stranger jumps in her car and tries to hijack her. In the process she hits and kills a San Francisco cop, caused by the hijacker's foot on the accelerator, and he manages to slip away, unseen. But his leather jacket gets ripped on her door. Plus, he ends up with her phone.The police come, she fails a Breathalyzer test, and they don't believe her story. Awaiting trial she gets put on hose arrest, with an ankle bracelet that allows her only 40 feet of mobility.Tim Blake Nelson as Daly ("name's Bill") is the government worker who has to keep tabs on Zoe. In time he starts to have sympathy for her, and she starts to enjoy his visits. But her captivity is a trying one, as she is always looking for ways to expand her range. Plus she is disappointed that no one believes her story so no one is looking for the hijacker.SPOILERS: With only one day before her trial, Daly gives her a break of sorts, arranging that she can have 9 hours, from 9AM to 6PM, of freedom to see if she can find the guy. She uses phone records and finds him, but it is a tense stand-off with police that ensues. Presumably the evidence they found in his apartment, plus the torn jacket, would clear her name. But she disappears, and at the end we see her in a bikini and on the bow of a yacht, no one knows where.

The first third of this film was promising, but it got so badly out of hand by the end that I can't seriously recommend anyone bother watching it. I found it really difficulty to be sympathetic to this main character who didn't seem to be affected by the death of a policeman--even if she wasn't responsible. Her main concern during her confinement seems to be how to foil the ankle device, not thinking about her screwed-up life, or how to clear her name. Worst of all, there is so little motivation for many of her actions that the whole thing just falls apart. The ending made me furious--she goes through a thoroughly unbelievable search for the guy who got her into this mess, uncovers plenty of evidence to clear herself then breaks her own foot to escape! That's not just stupid, that's insulting. Maybe they were bending over backwards not to have her just fall into the arms of her rescuer, but that could have been a far more satisfying scenario.I really loved "Dream with the Fishes" but after seeing this I won't be so quick to seek out another film by this director. The guy clearly has some issues with stalking women. This COULD have been a really good film, but it ended up just pissing me off.

Oh this movie had so much potential and I still recommend it as the soundtrack rocks and Robbin and Tim are both beautiful and so lovely to watch, but....this is an example, to me, of a good movie just made too fast or something, I was bummed because it just has such great potential, there were just way way way too many inconsistencies and unbelievable situations... i.e. the whole attic/shoot thing she was always jumping around in, the lovers never catching on, the new red cordless at the end of the movie, the wood plank suddenly not on the door just after she placed it there moments before....and the ending? (Spoiler Alert) actually just before the ending the fight with Mr. Psycho...it just didn't seem truthful, but I do like the fact that she took off and didn't get "saved" by her cute man and yet the emailing alludes to the possibility of them hooking up, even if at first he seemed creepy....so what I'm saying, rent it, but don't expect truthfulness to the situation...