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Sugar(Movie, 2008)

2h | Genre: Drama
SugarRating: 3.3/5 (with 2121 votes)
Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, also known as Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States' minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life's ambition. ()
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Follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States' minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life's ambition.

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Shot in: Arizona
Plays in: Iowa
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT)
Translated into 9 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/03/2008

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Other movies with this title: Sugar (FR, 1978), Sugar (DE/AT/CH/AU/GB, 1989), Sugar (CA, 2004), Sugar (2005), Sugar (NL, 2010), Sugar (US, 2013), Sugar (US, 2016), Sugar (US, 2017), Sugar (CA, 2022), Sugar (2023)

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