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  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m

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. Breakin...

Directed By: Bill Haney

Written By: Peter Rhodes, Bill Haney

  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2007
  • Unrated
  • Mitropoulos Films
  • 1 h 30 m

The Price of Sugar

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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. Breakin...

Directed By: Bill Haney

Written By: Peter Rhodes, Bill Haney

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Explores an unheralded but emotionally affecting issue in a straight-forward and engaging manner.
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80
Still, as compelling as The Price of Sugar is, it also represents a squandered opportunity. A stronger connection could have been made between the film's subject and our own responsibility as consumers.
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It's still difficult to find accurate information about where and when Bill Haney's profoundly disturbing documentary The Price of Sugar will be opening commercially in the United States. Partly this is because the Vicini family, sugar barons of the Dominican Republic, have hired Patton Boggs, a major Washington law firm, to try to halt the film's release, or at least paint it as slanted and defamatory.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
80
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.
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75
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.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
70
A solid and affecting piece of work.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Uncommon Productions
Release Date Sep 28, 2007
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination

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