Under the Cherry Moon

Is it as good as Purple Rain? No, it's hard to compare against Purple Rain.

It's a whole lot better than Under the Cherry Moon, if that matters to anybody.

But anyway, if you've never seen Hard to Hold, it's like a mid-80s movie.

You want to go check it out.

Yep.

Under the Cherry Moon, which he also took the lead as a male gigolo.

We talked about that very early on in the season.

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So, you know, I have to really give kudos to Eric and Amber, you know, for, you know, just for everything that they do.

But, yeah, but it's just overall just the whole weekend, just everything from – You know, going to the Kentucky Theater and watching Under the Cherry Moon, to Dance Party, to playing Prince of the Bingo.

And just even on the

last

Hey, digga, I'm looking at a list online, and guess what movie they put on here?

What's that? Under the Cherry Moon.

Oh.

Under the Cherry Moon was not a bad movie, but it wasn't the best.

Oh.

But the soundtrack was fire.

I heard about this from How Did This Get Made, and I agree with a lot of what they said.

We're here to talk about the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon.

The screenplay is by Becky Johnston.

Music and lyrics, for the most part, except for like two songs, are by Prince and the Revolution.

Yeah.

They're probably like,

background so like I went to go because the titular song under the cherry moon I don't know when that happened so I went I looked it up and a lot of the YouTube videos well there's a couple YouTube videos that had like color with it and then and then there was a video of Dame Kristen Scott Thomas on the Graham Norton show talking about this and

Oh,

So violence is always, always an option in the Muppets.

[laughs] Well, and if you want part of the next episode's conversation, we're closing out John's picks with a wild movie, and we'll be discussing Under the Cherry Moon.

I don't know that one.

It's a Prince film.

I listen to Around the World in a Day, which rules.

Parade, which is music from Under the Cherry Moon, a movie Prince directed.

It's okay.

It has Kiss on it and that song fucking rules.

Joy.

We'll be watching Under the Cherry Moon.

No, we won't.

With-

I've heard of it.

[laughs] With Prince.

I don't remember Under the Cherry Moon being good.

I remember it was Prince, and that's all I cared about.