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- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 50 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 50 m
Summary The story of a young man, Sonny (Franco), living in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women.
Directed By: Nicolas Cage
Written By: John Carlen
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 50 m
- 2002
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 50 m
Sonny
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7.5
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Summary The story of a young man, Sonny (Franco), living in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women.
Directed By: Nicolas Cage
Written By: John Carlen
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
2 Reviews
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33% Mixed
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44% Negative
4 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
31
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Besides "Midnight Cowboy" and "American Gigolo," there aren't many mainstream movies centered on straight male prostitutes. Sonny is a worthy, if indie-style, addition to the list.
While compellingly watchable, it's as overheated as Cage-the-actor's 1991 soft-core (and direct-to-video) "Zandalee," also set in New Orleans.
The day-to-day realities, especially economic, of Sonny and Jewel's lives could have been more fully detailed to good effect, and Cage might have also have risked setting off the tenderness of his storytelling with an edgier style. Even so, few films take the viewer by surprise with such emotional impact as Sonny.
It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly, and that "drunk cam," a blurred, cockeyed lens through which Sonny's soused point-of-view is shown, is just a terrible idea.
Emotionally incoherent.
Shows what can happen when a bunch of good actors get together without adult supervision. They emote all over the place, banging into each other, talking too loud, knocking over furniture, wallowing in clichés and otherwise behaving like rank amateurs.
Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 User Ratings
7.5
72% Positive
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28 Ratings
10% Mixed
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18% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 User Ratings
7.5
72% Positive
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
10% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
18% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
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Production Company
Gold Circle Films,
Saturn Films
Release Date Dec 27, 2002
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
Tagline His life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before.
Awards
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
