Profoundly disturbing.
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09/27/07
The Price of Sugar (2007)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:13
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.6/10
Theatrical Release:Sep 26, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Paul Newman narrates this documentary about the corrupt system surrounding sugar production in the Dominican Republic. Director Bill Haney follows the story of Father Christopher Hartley, a Spanish... [More]
Director: Bill Haney
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Reviews for The Price of Sugar
Top CriticPrice of Sugar is 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.
11/15/07
In the end, this is a fevered tale of an outsider, spurred on by his belief in God, who believes his role in life is to save a people, and for a while it seems he is making a difference. What film can top that nowadays?
09/12/07
Illuminating and deeply distressing.
09/28/07
The tainted relationship between the dessert on our tables and the suffering of those who produce it gets a horrifying workout in Bill Haney’s multilayered account of Haitian cane cutters in the Dominican Republic.
10/18/07
A portrait of a modern-day saint, a courageous Spanish Catholic priest in the Dominican Republic with a ministry of compassion to poor, enslaved Haitian immigrants. One of the best documentaries of the year.
09/27/07
A vivid, visual experience that will easily convince skeptics that slavery is alive and well.
09/15/07
Uplifting and enraging in equal measures, Bill Haney's The Price of Sugar is a powerful issue-driven documentary that also happens to have one of the most compelling heroes of any movie this year.
09/28/07
Haney doesn't strive for balance, and he doesn't have to; the images speak for themselves.
10/19/07
Top CriticThe director's investigation has a clear-sighted persuasiveness, as well as a formidable, complex central figure in the person of Father Christopher Hartley.
09/11/07
These Haitian sugar slaves are starved, beaten, disappeared, malnourished, and lacking uncontaminated drinking water, even as other far more privileged foreigners frolic in the waters of the DR's tropical tourist paradise nearby.
04/18/09
In this compelling documentary, narrated by Paul Newman, Hartley comes off as a man of intense will, and he needs to be.
11/02/07
It's been conceived and executed as an instrument of human rights and a tool of shame. But it's the political controversy that's at the heart of this movie -- the contempt that one poor country feels toward its somewhat poorer neighbor.
11/09/07
Top Critic... even those naturally sympathetic to the film's position may feel like they're taking their medicine.
10/21/07
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01/03/08
[A] no-frills doc, which isn't done any favors by Newman's monotone narration.
09/28/07
Few will doubt the priest's claims given the Dominican Republic's appalling human-rights record; one only wishes they had been explored in an objective documentary format.
09/27/07
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.
09/28/07
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