Sugar (2008)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh

Composer: Michael Brook

Cast: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli, Richard Bull, Ann Whitney, Jose Rijo, Michael Gaston

A promising young Dominican (baseball) pitcher at a Caribbean MLB feeder club is transferred to a minor league team in Iowa, where things initially go well, but when his two closest friends are sent elsewhere and his romantic intentions rejected his form begins to dip dramatically, in this constantly surprising, cliché-swerving, and very moving portrait of an innocent abroad. Iain.Stott