By: Lana K. Wilson-Combs
“Sugar Daddy,” from director
Wendy Morgan (TV’s “Little Dog”) is a coming-of-age drama starring
Kelly McCormack (TV’s “Ginny and Georgia”) as a struggling musician named Darren who lives in Toronto and is desperate for a break in the music industry. So much so, that when she loses her part-time catering job and can’t pay rent, Darren turns to a “Sugar Baby/Sugar Daddy” dating site.
It’s an awkward and even humiliating situation for her to be in and even her roommate, Peter (Ishan Dave, TV’s “Band Ladies”) and her sister wonder why she’s taken such a strange turn.
Then again, they aren’t paying her bills either.
Darren decides to go all in and before long, she’s become a popular choice for wealthy men who enjoy going out to high profile events with an attractive woman on their arm. The agreement is they pay for her time, dinner, clothes, and that’s it.
Things begin to look up when Darren meets Gordon (Colm Feore, “Trigger Point”) and Jim (Nicholas Campbell, TV’s “Pretty Hard Cases”) who seemingly are interested in Darren even beyond her music career.
Darren’s interactions with them trigger something within her that makes her begin to recognize and value her self-worth.
“Sugar Daddy” starts out slow and the plot is a bit wobbly at times, but McCormack who also wrote the film, keeps things steady with an engaging performance.
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"Sugar Daddy"
Lana K. Wilson-Combs is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC), The American Film Institute (AFI), and a Nominating Committee Voting Member for the NAACP Image Awards.
