sugar

With Life taking up the usual Netflix-watching time on Sundays, we let two movies sit far too long, In the Loop and Wendy & Lucy.

Like other great baseball movies few have seen -- Pastime, Long Gone and, to a lesser extent because of its improbable ending, Talent for the Game -- Sugar finds an aspect of the game few understand or possibly even know about, in this case the development of players in baseball academies owned by Major League Baseball in the Dominican Republic, a country where a disproportionate number of childhood dreams involve playing baseball in the United States. This is the story of what happens to those who either don't make it all the way or decide along the way that the dream belongs to someone else.