The Price of Sugar

Name: The Price of Sugar
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 28, 2007
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Paul Newman

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Mitropoulos Films | Release Date: September 28, 2007 | Unrated

Starring: Paul Newman

Summary: The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to challenge powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he's warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking aThe Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people to challenge powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he's warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries-old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade. (Uncommon Productions)… Expand

Director: Bill Haney

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 90 min

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Geoff Berkshire

Explores an unheralded but emotionally affecting issue in a straight-forward and engaging manner. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Out of this sorry tale of human trafficking emerges a fascinating portrait of this handsome, pugnacious, one-man NGO, who left a cushy life with his patrician Anglo-Spanish family to work with Mother Theresa and devote himself to the oppressed. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Designed to educate, outrage and finally spur viewers to action. That it does so with vibrant visual style and an engaging narrative makes it that rare consciousness-raising film that's not only good for you, but a joy to watch. Read full review

Stephen Farber

While the political implications of the film are provocative, "Sugar" also happens to be an impressive cinematic achievement. This picture has a visual sweep that many docu films lack; the plantations and nearby towns are vividly evoked. Read full review

Walter Addiego

This documentary has no bells and whistles; Bill Haney, the director and co-writer (with Peter Rhodes), sticks to the facts. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

The film is unabashedly supportive of Father Hartley, presenting him as a stubborn saint, and depicts the wealthy owners as soulless villains. Presumably they have a different story to tell, but we wouldn't know: When the camera's on, none can be found.

Stephen Holden

Like most documentary polemics, it simplifies the issues it confronts and selects facts that bolster its black-and-white, heroes-and-villains view of raw economic power.

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ChristaT.

Sep 28, 2007

This movie is an eye-opening example of things we take for granted that are destructing countries, cultures, families, and individuals around the world. There is really no reason not to see The Price of Sugar.

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TheGeographer52

Jan 6, 2013

Great film.

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