This overlooked drama by Nic Cage packs an emotional wallop.
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02/20/06
Sonny (2002)
24 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 6 Rotten:19 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: Nicholas Cage's directorial debut SONNY is the story of a young man (James Franco) who returns to the life he left behind in New Orleans after a brief stint in the Army. That life, provided by his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), is one of small-time prostitution: mom is a madam, and Sonny has been... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Scott Caan
Director: Nicolas Cage
Screenwriter: John Carlen
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Paul Brooks
Composer: Clint Mansell
Screenwriter: John Carlen
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Norm Golightly, Paul Brooks
Composer: Clint Mansell
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09/17/03
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01/16/03
Sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing, teeth-gnashing actorliness.
01/06/03
Actors generally make good actor's directors, but Sonny is a mixed bag in that department.
12/27/02
Enchanted with low-life tragedy and liberally seasoned with emotional outbursts ... What is sorely missing, however, is the edge of wild, lunatic invention that we associate with Cage's best acting.
12/27/02
There's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie, about a young man’s battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present.
12/27/02
Keep your day job, Nicolas Cage. This shockingly inept directorial debut reveals the brooding actor to be a hackneyed helmer.
12/27/02
Author John Carlen has abstrusely captured that struggle of one man simply trying to be human in nonhuman, vile, circumstances.
12/27/02
Nicolas Cage isn't the first actor to lead a group of talented friends astray, and this movie won't create a ruffle in what is already an erratic career.
12/27/02
Top Critic
Franco is an excellent choice for the walled-off but combustible hustler, but he does not give the transcendent performance SONNY needs to overcome gaps in character development and story logic.
12/26/02
It is as uncompromising as it is nonjudgmental, and makes clear that a prostitute can be as lonely and needy as any of the clients.
12/26/02
Top Critic
Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure.
12/25/02
Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by Blethyn.
12/25/02
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