Makers of 'Sugar' Focused On The Details

[BaseballAmerica.com]

When Ron Shelton wrote and directed Bull Durham, he created one of the most realistic baseball movies ever made because he'd live the life of a minor leaguer. He'd played in the Orioles organization and managed to take that experience and use the details to capture what life was like in the minor leagues. Ryan Fleck never played minor league ball, and as you would expect, fellow writer/producer/director Anna Boden didn't either. But the creators of "Sugar" have managed to match Shelton detail for detail and even surpass him in many ways, because they showed how well they could listen.

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