Sonny (2002)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:6
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Nicolas Cage
Reviews for Sonny
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 4/5 |
This overlooked drama by Nic Cage packs an emotional wallop.
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2.5/5 |
Back to the housewives with ya, and now that Cage has the vanity project out of his system, he can go back to making more movies with Spike Jonze. Full Review |
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1/4 |
Too defensive and earnest about its topic to be either fun or illuminating. Full Review |
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Sunk by way too much indulgence of scene-chewing, teeth-gnashing actorliness. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Actors generally make good actor's directors, but Sonny is a mixed bag in that department. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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C |
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. Full Review |
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F |
Keep your day job, Nicolas Cage. This shockingly inept directorial debut reveals the brooding actor to be a hackneyed helmer. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Author John Carlen has abstrusely captured that struggle of one man simply trying to be human in nonhuman, vile, circumstances. Full Review |
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1/4 |
An instant candidate for worst movie of the year. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock. Full Review |
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B- |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure. Full Review |
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Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by Blethyn. Full Review |
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John Carlen’s script is full of unhappy, two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling. Full Review |
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