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VIDEO RELEASE
Aug 19, 2003 (DVD)
Aug 19, 2003 (VHS)
CAST & CREW
James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn
Directed by Nicolas Cage
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, stong sexuality, language, some drug use, and violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 50 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Samuel Goldwyn Films
GENRE
Dramas, Military, Family Life, Love
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 "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."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"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."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"A well-intentioned effort that's still too burdened by the actor's offbeat sensibilities for the earnest emotional core to emerge with any degree of accessibility."
-- Wade Major, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
 "An engrossing and grim portrait of hookers: what they think of themselves and their clients."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Preposterous and tedious, Sonny is spiked with unintentional laughter that, unfortunately, occurs too infrequently to make the film even a guilty pleasure."
-- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY
"It's just plain lurid when it isn't downright silly."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"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."
-- Carlo Cavagna, ABOUTFILM.COM
"Keep your day job, Nicolas Cage. This shockingly inept directorial debut reveals the brooding actor to be a hackneyed helmer."
-- E! ONLINE
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"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."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Actors generally make good actor's directors, but Sonny is a mixed bag in that department."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"Earnest and tentative even when it aims to shock."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"As the sulking, moody male hustler in the title role, [Franco] has all of Dean's mannerisms and self-indulgence, but none of his sweetness and vulnerability."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera."
-- Lisa Nesselson, VARIETY
"An instant candidate for worst movie of the year."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"The story is bogus and its characters tissue-thin."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism ... that is routinely dynamited by Blethyn."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
-- Click to read the article.
-- EBERT & ROEPER
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Sonny" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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