Tony

Opens Aug 28
· 2026

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life. Directed by one of our favorite directors working today, Matt Johnson (Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie) and starring rising star Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) as the young Bourdain.

The beginning of Bourdain's 2000 best-selling memoir Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly served as the underpinning to Johnson developing the script.

"Those two chapters of Kitchen Confidential read like 'Genesis' to me," he says. "So little happens, but the margins are packed. It meant the cast and I could investigate this man's origin together, knowing only where he would end up 20 years later," says Matt Johnson.

Directed by
Matt Johnson
Starring
Antonio Banderas
Dominic Sessa