SugarFilmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who made the amazing 2006 film Half Nelson are back with another interesting character study. This time about a Dominican Baseball player hoping to make it into the Major Leagues. Sugar features a great performance from newcomer Algenis Perez Soto as the young Miguel "Sugar" Santos. The film tackles the pressures of performing in sports as well as the language barrier and culture shock of these "import" baseball players that come to America. Sugar is a very interesting and real character, and that's what makes this film work. The movie definitely lives up to the filmmakers' debut full length feature and more so. Sugar is an exceptional piece of filmaking and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do next.
My only problem in the entire movie is a scene with band "name-dropping" I hate when that happens in movies, I'm looking at you Garden State, 500 Days of Summer, among others.
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