Sugar

Resource Information

The work Sugar represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Sugar

Statement of responsibility

Journeyman Pictures ; Hunting Lane Films ; Gowanus Projections ; Single A Films ; produced by Paul S. Mezey, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker ; written by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck ; directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Contributor

• Gowanus Projections (Firm)
• Hunting Lane Films
• Journeyman Pictures (Great Britain)
• Single A Films (Firm)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Boden, Anna
• Brook, Michael, 1952-
• Brown, Joendy Pena
• Bull, Richard, 1924-2014
• Fleck, Ryan, 1976-
• Garcia, Kelvin Leonardo
• Gaston, Michael
• Holland, André
• Mezey, Paul
• Patricof, Jamie
• Pérez Soto, Algenis
• Porterfield, Ellary, 1989-
• Rijo, José
• Rufino, Rayniel
• Tirelli, Jaime
• Vargas, Alina
• Walker, Jeremy Kipp
• Whitney, Ann

Subject

• Baseball players -- Dominican Republic -- Drama
• Baseball players -- United States -- Drama
• Critical thinking -- Iowa -- Drama
• Minor league baseball -- Iowa -- Drama
• Pitchers (Baseball) -- Iowa -- Drama
• Portuguese language materials
• Spanish language materials
• Sports films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Drama
• Portuguese language materials
• Spanish language materials
• Sports films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• por
• spa
• eng
• fre
• por
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed into the small-town Iowa home of his host family. He struggles with language and cultural barriers despite the kindness of strangers. Subsequently forced to reevaluate his life's ambition after his once-trusty arm becomes unreliable. The previously single-minded pitcher gradually begins to question both the world he lives in and the role he has chosen to play in it

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Andrij Parekh ; editor, Anna Boden ; music, Michael Brook

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content, language and brief drug use

Language note

English, dubbed Portuguese or dubbed Spanish dialogue, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli, Jose Rijo, Michael Gaston, Alina Vargas, Richard Bull, Kelvin Leonardo Garcia, Joendy Pena Brown

Runtime

114

Technique

live action