Review 789: Tony
Matt Johnson's Tony is not a movie about cooking, it's about one mans journey to finding his calling Based on the memoir Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain; The film opens in 1975 where we meet "Tony" (Dominic Sessa from The Holdovers ) as a student at Vassar college. After he's rejected for a writing fellowship, he impulsively travels to Provincetown, Massachusetts in the hopes of seeing his crush Nancy (Emilia Jones fresh off of Task and the remake of The Running Man). After a night of drinking at The Flashship, a local seafood restaurant, he gets mugged and He sleeps on his front porch and gets splashed with water as wake up calls as part of a running. His experience serving in the kitchen serves as an extended lesson in humility He also develops a friendship with fellow cook Sal (Leo Woodall) who's brash, confident but also highly volatile and into drugs. He's a college student who's forced to grow up One of the best things about...
