Characters & Themes
Sonny Boy (1989) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1989 · 96 mins · English
- Directed by
- Robert Martin Carroll
- Starring
- David Carradine, Brad Dourif, Dalene Young, Sydney Lassick, Paul L. Smith, Robert Broyles
A small‑town car thief and his transgender wife stumble upon an abandoned infant. Determined to keep the discovery hidden, they cruelly amputate the baby's tongue and raise him as a weapon, molding him into a lifelong participant in their criminal world.
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