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- “The Price of Sugar” is narrated in calm, gravelly tones by Paul Newman. 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. The film does show how Father Hartley’s efforts backfired in sad, unforeseen ways.
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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...
74% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 77% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings. In 1997, appalled by the plight of the up to 20,000 Haitians annually lured into laboring for low wages on sugar plantations in the...
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2007 S&P Award Winner. The Price of Sugar. Directed by Bill Haney. A portrait of a courageous Spanish Catholic priest in the Dominican Republic with a ministry of compassion to poor, enslaved Haitian immigrants. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
Sep 25, 2007 · Release Details. Duration:90 mins. Cast and crew. Director:Bill Haney. Been there, done that? Think again, my friend. A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but as conveyed in...
The Price of Sugar shows how profiteers knowingly degrade the lives of unseen thousands so that a chunk of the world's largest crop, sugarcane, may wend its way from its raw state to refined American kitchens.
Sep 11, 2007 · Tagging along with Hartley, the film (narrated by Paul Newman) captures sights of concentration camp-level subjugation and abuse suffered by Haitians whom the Vicinis (and their industry brethren) illegally import, imprison at filthy outposts known as bateys, and force to work until their deaths.