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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0821575519878
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: TLA Releasing
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
MPN: VELD51987D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Running Time: 78 minutes
Studio: TLA Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Based on several short stories by acclaimed writer & filmmaker bruce labruce sugar is a provacative challenging & bizarrely funny coming of age story. To taste the sugar of life is to experience the bittersweet. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: Brendan Fehr Andre Noble Run time: 78 minutes Rating: Ur
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Now that gay films are becoming a little more (but not quite) mainstream, gay indies are popping up like wheat in Kansas. And we have to separate that wheat from the chaff. And boy, was this film chaff.
I am no naif and I understand that society has an underbelly in which realy nasty people reside, but why is it gay indies insist on only showing us the underbelly? Are gay film writers and producers so self-loathing that they can't find positive characters and plots...hence "O Fantasma", "Chuck and Buck" and countless others. Is the gay community populated exclusively by hustlers and druggies? Am I so far out of the loop that this distresses me?
Is it unreasonable to be bothered by the idea that a pre-teen girl knows more about drug dealing than anyone else in the film? Is it too much to expect to see a parent who takes responsibility for rearing children with a certan degree and love, care and consideration? Is it too much to ask that a coming-of-age gay character be attracted to other characters that are NOT neurotic druggie hustlers who do nothing but continue to slide of the deep end?
Am I too much of a prude to hope that gay romance isn't always proven with a one-night-stand in a men's room stall while one character's little sister is outside waiting for him?
Call it gritty or arty if you will, if that's what the gay community expects from itself. I personally believe the gay community demands more and wants more integrity and positive imagery.
Rating:  -
I don't know what the reviewer "Gordon Larko" is smoking. For some eason, he feels compelled to leave the EXACT SAME horrible review and 1 STAR rating for all GAY-THEMED movies. Probably a "personal problem" of his. Hopefully this review will help correct this imbalance. I can't believe AMAZON is allowing this GAY BASHER to use their website as a venue to spread his hate.
By the way, This is an absolutely WONDERFUL movie!
Rating:  -
I wish I could give this movie a bad review, but I can't. I disagree with the grim picture it paints of gay culture, however, the story was entertaining and I imagine somewhere the events in the movie may be plausible. The storyline was not excellent, but it wasen't bad. The acting was great also. If you do buy it, buy something to balance it out afterwards, like Trick or Beautiful Thing.
Rating:  -
I couldn't even get through the first 15 minutes of this strange and choppy film. Nothing felt connected, there was no real character development and I had no idea why I should like any of the people or care about them. Honestly I don't get what anyone saw in this film that rated it above two stars...obviously opinions vary quite a bit in what is considered a "good" film, but if you just want to see naked young men and no discernable story...this is the film for you.
Rating: -
Q: What do you get when you mix a bad screenplay with no plot, unbelievable situations like the little sister, bad production values and scenes inserted only to shock (pardon the pun) like the servicing of the 500 lb. woman? A: Sugar!
Cliff has an identity crisis. Big deal. So what? Which one of us hasn't at some point in our lives? So he turns to drugs and hustling. I know that was my chosen path of enlightenment.
Unlikable characters, flimsy plot, bad production values (everything is so dark I had to adjust the brightness on my monitor) and situations that are so far-fetched they are more appropriate for a comic book. This trashy film asks us to suspend disbelief so often you'll feel like you were hired by your local electric company to string power lines.
Other reviewers have called this film gritty. It's gritty, all right. Gritty like sand in your sugar.
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