Most baseball stories are focused on the guy who manages to get all the way to the Majors. Sometimes we can lose sight of the fact that for every spot filled on a major league roster, there are scores, if not hundreds, of players who get sidelined, somewhere along the way, in their quest to make it to the big leagues! You don't have to like Baseball to enjoy SUGAR, but if you do, you'll probably enjoy it all the more.
You've got to give credit to HBO films...Gutsy move to make a baseball movie that
A) Is about 70% in Spanish
B) Manages to make the viewer empathize with the isolation and culture clash experienced by someone who arrives here not speaking any English and
C) Morphs completely into a different movie genre!
Algenis Perez Soto plays SUGAR. I'd venture a guess that more likely, he REALLY is SUGAR! IMDb PRO lists this as his only acting gig, ever. Apparently, he is undecided as to whether or not to continue his career in acting.
SUGAR also boasts some great Dominican Meringue music, new, exotic third-world locations, and an on-screen collision between Dominican and Iowa Mid-Western cultures... Honestly... Quite fascinating to watch!
8.5* OUT OF 10*! ENJOY! / DISFRUTELA!
