This overlooked drama by Nic Cage packs an emotional wallop.
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02/20/06
Sonny (2002)
23 %
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Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 6
Rotten:20
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Theatrical Release: Dec 27, 2002 Limited
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... [More]
Starring: James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Nicolas Cage
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Reviews for Sonny
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.
03/07/04
Too defensive and earnest about its topic to be either fun or illuminating.
09/17/03
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
John Carlen’s script is full of unhappy, two-dimensional characters who are anything but compelling.
12/24/02
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Is Nicolas Cage's SONNY the 'worst' dramatic film of 2002 or maybe worst EVER???
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Film review: Sonny was great
by: texasmale76 9/13/03
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