A young Dominican aspires to be a major league pitcher. But the film is about much more than balls and strikes. It's about self-discovery
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
Sports is life writ large, the place where everything -- the triumph, the boredom, the despair -- gets magnified and scrutinized. The best films about sports, and the baseball-themed "Sugar" is surely one, understand that when a character says, "it's just a game, right?" the answer is both yes and no.
So though "Sugar" takes place in a setting we haven't seen before, the world of aspiring young players from the Dominican Republic trying to make it in the major leagues, it would be a mistake to think of it as a sports movie. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4230 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 3 aprile 2009
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