"Sugar"
Starring: Algenis Perez Soto
Grade: B
Sugar is a modest little indie from the writing/directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who also made Half Nelson back in 2006. Sugar is an insightful film that recognizes the struggles of young baseball prospects from such places as the Dominican Republic, and their integration into American life and culture. The film does a solid job of sidestepping cliches and formulas by creating its own personal atmosphere as we follow the main character, Miguel "Sugar" Santos from the start.
While most of the film is in Spanish, any sports lover should respect the storytelling, and love for the past time that Boden and Fleck honor. Sugar goes in a direction I wasn't expecting, but once it happens, you'll realize its the only place the story could have went.
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