How To Watch The Anthony Bourdain Movie Tony At Home
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Of all the many different routes that an Anthony Bourdain biopic could've gone, the A24 film "Tony" stands out for its restraint. It's easy to imagine an Oscar-bait drama and an exaggerated lead performance to match, retelling all the highs and tragic lows of the famous food connoisseur's life. Instead, what director Matt Johnson (known for his similarly unconventional real-life flick "BlackBerry" and this year's "Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie") and star Dominic Sessa pull off here is something wildly different — a slice-of-life tale set in a very specific and formative moment of young Tony's adolescence. Yes, in other words, there's a certain poetic justice to the idea that this movie doesn't bite off more than it can chew.
Doing justice to a figure as complicated and famous as Bourdain is as intimidating a task as it gets, but now audiences will get a chance to experience "Tony" at home and judge for themselves how it measures up to the real-life king of cuisine. Only a few weeks after debuting its latest film in theaters in August 2026, A24 has announced that "Tony" is now available to get in a to-go box — or, if you're boring, to purchase or rent through the digital retailer of your choice. Much like the title character, there's far more to this picture than meets the eye. Whether you missed this one in theaters the first time around or are simply coming back for seconds, there's something here for everyone to digest. (Okay, that's the last food pun, we swear.)
Check out the details below!
Tony is coming to Blu-ray and DVD soon
"Tony" follows Dominic Sessa as the young, arrogant, and completely unformed Anthony Bourdain when he escapes to the New England coastal setting of Provincetown and finds himself drawn to a seafood restaurant — the unlikely place that would go on to mold him into the person we all know he became. In addition to the breakout star of "The Holdovers," the cast includes the great Antonio Banderas as chef and mentor figure José Vatel, Emilia Jones as high school sweetheart (and Bourdain's first wife) Nancy Putkoski, Leo Woodall as volatile cook Sal, Stavros Halkias as restaurant worker Stavros, and more. Though the film is currently still playing in select theaters, it's now available on PVOD ... and will then come to physical media shortly thereafter.
When exactly, you ask? Unfortunately, A24 is only teasing that the Blu-ray release is "coming soon," hopefully to be packed with plenty of behind-the-scenes featurettes and extras. Director Matt Johnson has done his part to talk up "Tony" as it explores Bourdain's earliest origins long before he became a world-famous chef, TV personality, travel documentarian, and author. To that end, there's no shortage of details for the creative team to dig into about bringing this snapshot of Bourdain's life to the big screen and what they chose to dramatize — from his early romance to how he discovered his passion for the culinary arts to his glimpse of a darker version of himself in Woodall's scene-stealing performance as Sal. While we wait for details on the DVD and Blu-ray, you can check out the film's synopsis below:
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.