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Sonny
EMAILPRINTSamuel Goldwyn Films
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: John Carlen
Directed by: Nicolas Cage
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 27, 2002
DVD: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 110 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong sexuality, language, some drug use and violence
Starring James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Vaccaro, Scott Caan, Seymour Cassel, and Nicolas Cage
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.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Variety Lisa Nesselson
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.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Douglas R. gave it a10:
Extremely well done and one of the year's best films!
