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‘Tony’ Review: Matt Johnson’s Sweet Anthony Bourdain Pic Offers a Salty Appetizer of His Life [B-]
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Matt Johnson, who wrote and directed Tony, clearly made the deliberate choice to make the movie a tart, bittersweet but ultimately hopeful perspective on Anthony Bourdain’s life.
Tony opens at a bar where the daring young man, played by Dominica Sessa (The Holdovers), approaches Nancy (Emilia Jones, CODA) to ask her out.
Tony escapes in the night to P-Town, arriving under false pretenses and with scarcely a few dollar bills to his name.
He is under the tutelage of a character we only know as “Chef” (Antonio Banderas).
But the movie poster for Tony has Sessa in a chef’s gown.