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In America, first you get de sugar…

…then you get de power… / Seth Freilich

Trailers | February 10, 2009 | Comments (9)

(…then you get de women!)

A year removed from last year’s Sundance, Sugar, Ryan fleck and Anna Boden’s follow-up to Half-Nelson, still sticks with me. It’s about a Dominican youth working his way through the MLB minor league system, hoping to make it to the Big Show and while it’s a sports movie on its face, it’s really something quite more than that, as I wrote shortly after seeing it at Sundance:

Fleck and Boden don’t follow the typical sports movie arc, which is a welcome relief that keeps the second half of the film very fresh. Like the best of sports films, however, it does include some funny moments and the requisite amount of heart, all of which are magnified by a fantastic performance from Algenis Perez Soto as Sugar, who Fleck and Boden actually discovered on a Dominican Republic ballfield.

The flick’s spent the last year on the shelf, but finally sees the light of theater this April (albeit with a very limited initial release in NY and LA), and now that the official trailer and poster have dropped, I can’t wait to see this again.

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Comments

I wonder if they put the performance enhancing drug angle in the story? It is supposed to be very prevalent in these leagues.

Posted by: richmac at February 10, 2009 4:59 PM

I normally could care less about sports movies, since I don't understand sports, but this looks like something that I'll Netflix and watch while hormonal.
Then again, I love Major League. damn. Now I want to watch that one, too.

Posted by: Stella at February 10, 2009 5:31 PM

This rundown is giving me falshbacks of the English soccer film "Goal!", and I haven't even seen that film yet.

Posted by: csb at February 10, 2009 6:50 PM

I saw Sugar at Sundance & Toronto, I & the rest of the audience loved it. Yeah, the performance-enhancing drugs is in there, but not dwelled on, it's not the main focus of the movie.

Sugar is to a typical sports movie like Half Nelson is to a typical uplifting, inspirational teacher movie. No cliches, expect surprises.

I really like Fleck & Boden's focus on their characters, they're real people - and casting non-actors, including the fanstatic lead, probably helped.

Posted by: Ligaya at February 10, 2009 8:40 PM

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APRIL 10 - SAN FRANCISCO, BOSTON, MIAMI, SAN DIEGO
APRIL 17 - CHICAGO
MAY 1 - WASHINGTON D.C.
MAY 15 - TUCSON
JUNE 5 - U.K.

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