Sonny

Sonny

5.2IMDb Score
Released:2002-10-26
Duration:110 min
Director:Nicolas Cage
Actors:James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Nicolas Cage
Production:Saturn Films, Gold Circle Films

Overview:

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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