Movie

Sweet Sugar

1972 · 86 min

A grimy, lurid exploitation ride that mixes brutal plantation cruelty with campy mad-scientist theatrics and a scrappy escape.

Tagline: Bitter Days...Sweet Nights
Overview: A young woman nabbed in a drug bust chooses to work on a sugarcane plantation with other convicts instead of going to jail.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, campy and tense. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Survival, violence, power, corruption
Content: Strong violence and sexual content. Mild gore and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
violence
power
corruption
freedom
Places: countryside
prison
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong