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| Indépendant, Drame, sports, Baseball - 114 mins - 2009 |
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Baseball needs no translation.
Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, is a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macors, who's 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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 | 14 : Convient aux personnes de 14 ans et plus. Les personnes de moins de 14 ans devraient être accompagnées d'un adulte. Peut contenir de la violence, du langage vulgaire ou des scènes sexuelles suggestives. |
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Remember, it's just game, have fun - luminol
 
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Although the film covers a lot of geography, beginning on a small third world island and going all the way to the big Apple. It's nothing compared to our hero's internal journey. As an up and coming pitching prospect, his family has pinned all their hopes and dreams on that wicked curve ball of his.
The economics of baseball was a bit of an eye opener. Every major league team maintains a baseball Academy on the island, and gets first crack at those young athletes---dirt cheap athletes. The trek to the big leagues has assumed almost a rite of passage for the young men on the island who have some talent either in throwing or hitting a baseball.
This same film, if it featured a saggy haired, blue eyed jock coming out of some economically depressed american city would be the stuff of high tragedy. So, there's something extremely endearing about a young man looking beyond his tattered boyhood dreams and making the best of the opportunities around him now. Miguel "Sugar" Santos may never be adored by thousands of screaming fans on some baseball pitch, but he will be celebrated by the people in his life. His future still burns bright. This is embodied by a quote from Roberto Clemente he stumbles across: "If you have the opportunity to help someone, and you don't, then you're wasting your life." Words to live by. |
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