The film stars Jonathan Tucker as Jordan Wells, the privileged son of a successful man who gets kicked out of an exclusive prep school after his interest in photography and girls leads him to take nude snapshots of classmates.

Soon he meets a poor but attractive girl named Shay Bettencourt (Nikki Reed) who ensnares him in a web of murder and lies.

Photographer Jordan Wells (Jonathan Tucker) is the son of a very wealthy family which have high expectations for him to take over his father's company.

He is then transferred to a local public high school, where he then meets Shay Bettencourt, (Nikki Reed) a cellist aspiring to go to Hartley to become a cello player in a professional orchestra.

They then throw him into a nearby lake, attempt to cover up as much evidence as they can, and find ways to avoid implicating themselves when interviewed by detectives.

Filming for Cherry Crush took place from August 8 to September 9, 2005, in Rochester, New York on a budget of almost a million dollars.

"[6] Jack Garner of the Democrat and Chronicle was more favorable, writing that "Tucker makes a plausibly flawed protagonist, and Reed is as seductive and manipulative as you could want.