Watch Under The Cherry Moon (1986) Free Online

Release Date: 1986

Cast: Alexandra Stewart, Kristin Scott Thomas, Prince, Jerome Benton, Francesca Annis, Steven Berkoff

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Musical, Romance Film

Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by and starring Prince as a gigolo named Christopher Tracy and Time member Jerome Benton as his partner, Tricky. Together, the pair swindle wealthy French women. The situation gets complicated when Christopher falls in love with heiress Mary Sharon (Kristin Scott Thomas) after planning to swindle her when he finds out that she receives a $50 million trust fund on her 21st birthday. Mary's father Isaac (Steven Berkoff) disapproves of the romance and provides an excellent adversary for Tracy. Prince drew inspiration from... MORE

Under the Cherry Moon is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by and starring Prince as a gigolo named Christopher Tracy and Time member Jerome Benton as his partner, Tricky. Together, the pair swindle wealthy French women. The situation gets complicated when Christopher falls in love with heiress Mary Sharon (Kristin Scott Thomas) after planning to swindle her when he finds out that she receives a $50 million trust fund on her 21st birthday. Mary's father Isaac (Steven Berkoff) disapproves of the romance and provides an excellent adversary for Tracy. Prince drew inspiration from Federico Fellini's 8½ to the slapstick humor of Abbott and Costello (the sequence involving the ladder, the telephone call from Mary to Christopher). The film was originally slated to be directed by Mary Lambert, the director behind some of Madonna and Janet Jackson's most famous music videos, but after disagreements about the film's direction, Prince took over directing. She was credited only as a creative consultant in the movie's credits. Much of her input was disregarded and numerous drafts of the screenplay exist to show the revisions the story went through. The cast was also changed during LESS