SUGAR (2008)
A film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s powerful and ambitious follow-up to
their startlingly assured feature debut (HALF NELSON). But just as
their first film was not your average high school drama, nor is
SUGAR even close to being just another American sports movie.
Miguel ‘Sugar’ Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) realises his opportunity
to achieve the American Dream, when he is picked to enter a US
rookie academy and given a chance to play in the major league. But
thoughts of success, fame and celebrity are thwarted by the reality
of his situation. Increasingly isolated, he has to decide wheth