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Name: Sugar
Released: 2009-4-3
Cast: Algenis Perez Soto, Richard Bull, Michael Gaston

Sugar

R
1h 54m
2009

78%

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A gifted pitcher travels from his home in the Dominican Republic to play minor league baseball in the U.S., where he struggles with the new culture and the pressure of knowing that only his success can rescue his family.

Director:

Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden

Writer:

Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden

Cast:

Algenis Perez Soto, Richard Bull, Michael Gaston

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

78%

Reviews

The Advocate

Michael Wilde

As tasty as Sugar is, it tortures us exquisitely with the pains of first love and of losing someone to addiction.

April 5, 2022

FULL REVIEW

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Chase Burns

It's a real bummer this one goes from remarkably tender and trashy to spinning down the toilet bowl of hustler cliches.

December 9, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

Michael Phillips

can't imagine a baseball fan%u2014or a moviegoer%u2014who wouldn't respond on some level to the new film "Sugar," a rich and moving reminder of the way professional sports aspirations can shape someone's destiny in the real world, as opposed to the mytho

June 21, 2017

EmanuelLevy.Com

Emanuel Levy

This probation of the American Dream, a highlight of the Sundance Film Festival, benefits from a wonderful lead performance by a nonprofessional actor