Since I really loved ‘Half Nelson’, I was quite eager to see what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck did afterwards. The first interesting thing is how this movie completely stood out with the rest of their filmography and I wonder how they ended up directing this. Anyway, what I enjoyed the most about it was the raw and realistic approach. It reminded me of many things, for example, when I spent a wee... read more

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Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States’ minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life’s ambition.

Release date: 24 April 2009

Tags: Drama (2), Baseball (2), 2008 (2), Sports (1), Sport (1), Iowa (1), 2000s (1), Dramas (1), Must See (1), Sort (1), Baseball Players (1)

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johanlefourbe posted a review 11 months ago

A good movie

“Since I really loved ‘Half Nelson’, I was quite eager to see what Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck did afterwards. The first interesting thing is how this movie completely stood out with the rest of their filmography and I wonder how they ended up directing this. Anyway, what I enjoyed the most about it was the raw and realistic approach. It reminded me of many things, for example, when I spent a week of holiday in the Dominican Republic in an all inclusive holiday resort. Already at the time, even though I saw nothing of it, I could sense that, behind the walls of this resort, the life of the average people living in the Dominican Republic was probably not so great. While this trip in the Dominican Republic was more than 20 years ago, it also reminded me of another trip I did only a few mont” read more

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