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Sugartime
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783134550
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078313455X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
MPN: D91283D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 25, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Based on the true story of the life and times and love affair of mobster Sam Giancana and America's songbird, Phyllis McGuire. Their too public relationship and tense atmosphere of the times could put an end to her career - and his life!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Light entertainment about the private life of Chicago underboos
SUGARTIME (1995) will attract Mafia-phile DVD viewers, who get a kick out of stories
touching upon what goes on behind the scenes, in the underworld, for example.
The script is well written, and the filming is fine, professional, almost in wide-screen
format; the strength of this picture is the timepiece it constitutes, in terms of
music, club acts, restaurants, cars from the 50's and 60's shown and the clothes people wore
back then, and some home decorations. ... Read More
Rating:  - Sugertime-jaw
A well done movie with good acting by ML Parker. I enjoyed it and found it interesting in its coverage of a period and a culture that I was not very familiar with. Not Academy Award material but a most enjoyable and interesting movie and well worth the price of admission.
Rating:  - I highly recommend this DVD.
This made for HBO movie is one of my many favorites. The acting is top notch and the mixture of music, humor and mob violence are rolled into one well scripted story.
Rating: - A great historical love story.
I love this movie! It's fun, piquant, thoughtful, provocative. This movie was my introduction to John Turturro, a delightful actor with a thoughtful presence. In spite of the character of the mobster Sam Giancana, I could see the soft, lovable side of him that Phyllis Maguire simply could not walk away from. I could even see his integrity: in spite of being offered complete immunity, he refused to talk once he was arrested.
Maguire's denial about Giancana's "work" was palpable - as was his ... Read More
Rating: - Sugartime
A great movie about the McGuire Sisters and the Mobsters. Fabulous music and singing for those who like the 40's and 50's ear.
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