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April 24, 2009
At the Movies: Well-told sports tale avoids all the cliches
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
AP Movie Critic
LOS ANGELES — With “Sugar,” writing-directing partners Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have pulled off the kind of miraculous trick Darren Aronofsky did last year with “The Wrestler.”
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 Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Cast: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Richard Bull Rating: R for language, some sexuality and brief drug use Running time: ((Three and a half stars out of four)) Directors: Cast: Rating: Running time: 114 minutes |
They've taken an overly familiar, potentially cliched sports story, stripped it down and, in doing so, completely reinvented it. Rather than focusing on an athlete past his prime, Boden and Fleck tell the tale of a baseball player on the rise — a subgenre with all its own formulas and expectations.
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