On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.
The Price of Sugar has generally received positive reviews.
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The Price of Sugar was released in 2007 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 9 reviews, giving The Price of Sugar (2007) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 100%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 79%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Price of Sugar than critics were.
With a score of 69%, The Price of Sugar is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2007, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2007 with similar scores include films like I Am Legend, 28 Weeks Later and Surf's Up.
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