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Sonny

Country: USA, Language: English, 110 mins

  • Director: Nicolas Cage
  • Writer: John Carlen
  • Producer: Paul Brooks; Nicolas Cage

CGiii Comment

Cage directs and produces and shows his face...

He fails to disentangle what is a thoroughly muddled script.

The acting is fine... Franco does like playing it gay...but, when the subplots become more interesting than the central story - you just know that the director has lost control.

Cage is not a director - this is the evidence.


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The(ir) Blurb...

New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home where the only life he's known is as a gigolo working for his mother. He wants to leave that behind, but the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.

Cast & Characters

James Franco as Sonny;
Brenda Blethyn as Jewel;
Harry Dean Stanton as Henry;
Mena Suvari as Carol;
Seymour Cassel as Albert;
Brenda Vaccaro as Meg;
Josie Davis as Gretchen;
Willie Metcalf as Cal;
Janet Shea as Wealthy Woman;
Cary Wilmot Alden as Catherine;
Nicolas Cage as Acid Yellow;
Scott Caan as Jesse;
Graham Timbes as Troy;
Wallace Merck as Scott;
Doug Barden as Maitre d'