Sugar Baby

Original title: Zuckerbaby

1985
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

992

YOUR RATING

Comedy Drama Romance

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately, despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she get... Read allAn asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately, despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately, despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Director
- Percy Adlon
Writers
- Percy Adlon
- Gwendolyn von Ambesser
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

992

YOUR RATING

Director
- Percy Adlon
Writers
- Percy Adlon
- Gwendolyn von Ambesser
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations

Trivia
Was remade in 1989 with actress Ricki Lake as 'Babycakes'.

Connections
Followed by Bagdad Cafe (1987)

User reviews12

Review

Featured review

7/10

The fascination of weirdness

Most of you will know Percy Adlon only for "Out of Rosenheim`, a film that is weird enough for the American taste. This movie is just as weird but there are fewer people involved. The story is quite simple to tell: A woman falls in love with the voice of an underground announcer and begins an affair with him.

The weird thing is how the story is directed. The colours and moods suggest that there is something mysterious and frightening going on behind the scenes but there isn't. The dialogue and the characters, especially Marianne Sägebrecht's are to take more seriously as the direction which seems to me somewhat playful, not in any way relevant for the development of the plot.

At least, this connection of story and direction brings some fascination. Directed by anyone else then Percy Adlon, "Zuckerbaby` would be not more than another of these unconventional love stories that have been modern since the seventies ("Harold and Maude`, "Spider and Rose`).