8/10
The most underrated film I've seen so far!
2 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
A young man (played by Jeremy Davis) is returning home from the Korean war to the parents he joined the war to escape from. Along the way, he meets a happy-go-lucky extrovert (played by Ben Affleck at what seemed to be his sexual peak) co-soldier with whom he unwittingly becomes friends with. This is cool for him, since he now has a friend he can run away to whenever things at home become too hectic. With Gunner (Affleck), Sonny finds a new lease on life when he is introduced to a different side of life whereby he doesn't have to masturbate in his bedroom hoping that his parents can't hear him, or sneak a childhood friend into the house for missionary sex. Tagging along with Gunner, he meets the stunning Gail (played with Va-VA-Voom by Rose McGowan) the cousin of Gunner sex-goddess girlfriend (played by the equally stunning Rachel Weisz Pre-Oscar), add an anti-Semitic mother who is sexually attracted to her own son (Gunner's mum), a strictly religious and stern mother (Sonny's mum), weird pops (Sonny's dad) and a priest into the mix and you're sure to be going all the way! Ben Affleck's sexuality and performance in this film rivals that of Brad Pitt's in Thelma and Louise but this film was so underrated that nobody would have noticed this. Nevertheless, when you see him up on that screen flirting with Weisz's character, things seem to get hot all of a sudden.
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