Synopsis
When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.
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Cast
- Kelly McCormackDarren
- Amanda BrugelNancy
- Colm FeoreGordon
- Ishan DavéPeter
- Nicholas CampbellJim
- Kaniehtiio HornAlida
- Aaron AshmoreAngus
- Hilary McCormackRae
- Noam JenkinsEdward
- Jess SalgueiroAngela
Recommendations
- 100
Film Threat
Due to outstanding writing, stylish, dazzling direction, and a breathtaking, radiant performance from Kelly McCormack, the drama never lets the audience go and proves to be a searing examination of its young protagonist and the society she lives in. - 80
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Sugar Daddy will be gripping viewing for anyone who wonders what it takes to make it – and whether it’s all worth it in the end. - 75
The Film Stage
McCormack and Morgan aren’t interested in sanitizing the messiness that goes into a woman accepting herself outside the men’s world she was born into. It’s why finding financing took years. It’s also why Sugar Daddy is so uniquely good too, though. They’ve put an honest, coarse, and authentic human being on-screen who’s breaking through the façade she didn’t even know she was helping to cultivate. - 75
Original-Cin
Sugar Daddy impresses as an idiosyncratic film with a forceful visual style and sound design, attached to a familiar story about the ways of bad men and a young woman getting lost in the fast life. - 75
Movie Nation
Sugar Daddy is a mature, artful and disturbing peek into being “open minded” about something that borders on “sex work,” and sometimes crosses that border.
