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‘Tony’ is a biopic that cooks

Tony and What’s Making Us Happy

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In the new film Tony, we meet chef and author Anthony Bourdain beforehe was in the public eye. He was a wayward, overconfident young guy, and, as played by Dominic Sessa, kind of a piece of work. The movie focuses on a pivotal summer in 1975, when Tony worked in his first kitchen, a tiny hole-in-the-wall in Provincetown. But does the film break out of the familiar biopic formula to tell a compelling story?

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