Paul L. Smith plays a local crook "Who has the town under his thumb" however things get extremely bizarre when in the opening sequences we see Brad Dourif kill a couple and steal the car with a baby inside, to which Smith wants to kill but his "wife" David Carradine(!) wants to keep, Smith compromises and raises the boy as a geek and through out we see a blackly comic, utterly bizarre, daft and overall daring movie to say the least. First of all the thought of having David Carradine as your mother, Smith as your dad and Dourif as your uncle would guarantee any kid's trip to insanity. The movie is indeed quite strange but it's all surprisingly well acted, with effective black comedy and surreality that verges on true greatness. I mean you have to be extremely talented to make a movie this bizarre. And yet in it's own way Sonny Boy is ingenious in it's story. A movie that is unpredictable, jaw dropping (Seriously anyone known to remembering Carradine for his role on Kung Fu, will have their jaw drop whenever he's on screen, which is pretty often) and at times somewhat tragic. This is a movie for the adventurous who have grown tired of predictable blockbusters, and unpredictable Sonny Boy is. This is a cult classic and for my money, needs a DVD release.
* * *1/2 out of 4-(Very Good)
* * *1/2 out of 4-(Very Good)