Synopsis
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
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Cast
- James FrancoSonny
- Brenda BlethynJewel
- Harry Dean StantonHenry
- Mena SuvariCarol
- Nicolas CageAcid Yellow
- Scott CaanJesse
- Seymour CasselAlbert
- Brenda VaccaroMeg
- Josie DavisGretchen
- Willie MetcalfCal
Recommandations
- 70
Variety
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. - 63
USA Today
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. - 50
Los Angeles Times
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. - 50
Village Voice
Amid the cliché and foreshadowing, Cage manages a degree of casual realism. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 30
The New York Times
Emotionally incoherent. - 25
New York Daily News
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. - 25
New York Post
An instant candidate for worst movie of the year.
