Sugar
DVD - 2009
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 g...radually begins to question both the world he lives in and the role he has chosen to play in it.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Sports films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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©2009
- Language
- Spanish
Portuguese
English
French - Corporate Authors
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- Item Description
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
"This PG-13-rated version contains material different from the original R-rated version"--Container.
Special features: deleted scenes, Making "Sugar": run the bases, Play beisbol!: the Dominican dream, interview with Algenis Perez Soto.
Includes 3 previews of other motion pictures. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Playing Time
- 01:55:00
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for sexual content, language and brief drug use.
- Awards
- Sundance Film Festival, 2008 ; Toronto Film Festival, 2008.
- Production Credits
- Cinematography, Andrij Parekh ; editor, Anna Boden ; costume designer, Erin Benach ; music, Michael Brook.
- ISBN
- 9781435968684