"Sugar" is the second feature film from husband and wife team Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. (Their first was 2006's acclaimed Half Nelson, with Ryan Gosling.) It's the story of Miguel "Sugar" Santos, a promising young pitcher from the Dominican Republic who makes it from a training camp there to the minor leagues in the U.S. The film is simultaneously a baseball movie and a look at how extreme inequality affects the life of one young man. Fleck and Boden join The Takeaway to talk about their critically-acclaimed film.

Watch the trailer for "Sugar" below.