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'Sugar'

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As their Oscar-nominated "Half Nelson" proved, the writing-directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck can plunge into dramatically treacherous territory (teachers on drugs, in that case) and create cinema not just engagingly human but intellectually honest. Likewise "Sugar," a baseball movie, an immigrant parable and a thoroughly entertaining drama that accomplishes the seemingly impossible task...

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