Too Much Sugar

Too Much Sugar

2026 · 98 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary, Drama, Music

Ryan "Holli-wood" Holliger is a charismatic, pit bull of a man with six kids by five different women. His best friend AccRite is a rapper and laborer, dealing with an unimaginable loss. They have big dreams of making their own movie about fatherhood in their working class Missouri town. Over the course of one pivotal, madcap year, the film becomes something else entirely: a vehicle for accountability, healing and self discovery for their families.

Directed by Robert Greene

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