Sonny (2002)

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 2002

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Nicolas Cage's directorial debut stars James Franco as Sonny who, following his discharge from the army, returns to New Orleans to resume his desultory life as a gigolo at the bordello run by his mother Jewel. Although reluctant to resume his old trade and struggling to go straight, he becomes professionally involved with Jewel's new whore Carol at first professionally but slowly an emotional bond forms between them as they try to escape their destinies. Cage has an outrageous cameo as a lemon-suited gay pimp and there's an appearance by Brenda Vacarro as one of Sonny's clients - she was also serviced by Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy.

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Cast

	James Franco		Sonny Phillips
	Brenda Blethyn		Jewel Phillips
	Harry Dean Stanton		Henry Wade
	Mena Suvari		Carol
	Josie Davis		Gretchen
	Nicolas Cage		Acid Yellow
	Scott Caan		Jesse
	Seymour Cassel		Albert
	Brenda Vaccaro		Meg
	Willie Metcalf		Cal
	Marc Coppola		Jimmy at Mattie's
	Janet Shea		Wealthy Woman
	Cary Wilmot Alden		Catherine
	Graham Timbes		Troy
	Wallace Merck		Scott
	Katherine Randolph		Dagmar
	Doug Barden		Maitre D'
	Bernard Hocke		Clerk
	David E. Jensen		Mr. Penn
	Karen Kaia Livers		Mattie
	Don Yesso		Waiter
	Thomas Williams		Waiter
	Norman Golightly		Man at Party with Tie
	Monica L. Monica		Party Lady
	Kriste Andrea Tujague		Joanie
	Mark W. Davidson		Acid Yellow's Thug
	Ben Jones		Boy
	Houston Parker		Lilly White