Sugar Daddies (2014)
About
A law student short of money agrees to an arrangement with a wealthy man more than twice her age, and finds it cannot be kept separate from the rest of her life.
Kara Jones is a bright student from a middle-income family, working towards a law degree and waiting tables part time to pay for it. When she is offered an internship, the sums stop adding up: she cannot take the placement and keep the job that covers her bills.
Her roommate Lea shows her another way. Lea moves in a circle of "sugar daddies", older men who hand over money in return for company and favours. With the pressure mounting, Kara enters into an arrangement of her own with Grant Zager, a 55-year-old businessman.
Kara tries to keep her relationship with Grant a secret. The two halves of her life meet head on anyway, and the damage reaches her family and her own future. The danger is not only to her reputation: one of the young women in the same circle ends up dead, and Kara is left trying to work out what happened.
Sugar Daddies (2014) was written by Barbara Kymlicka, who went on to co-write Double Daddy (2015), and comes from the same producers.
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Details
Director: Doug Campbell
Writer/Screenplay: Barbara Kymlicka
Producer: Ken Sanders, Robert Ballo
Running time: 88 minutes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: December 23, 2014
Music Composer: Steve Gurevitch
Cast
- Taylor Black as Kara Jones
- Peter Strauss as Grant Zager
- James C. Burns as Barry
- Isabella Hofmann as Rita
- Ashley McCarthy as Shawna
- Timothy Brennen as Peter
- Samantha Robinson as Lea
- Griffin Freeman as Justin
- Kelli Kirkland as Professor Lawrence
- Dan O'Connor as Rory
- Christopher Kriesa as David
- Kelicea Meadows as Heather
- Charles Christopher as Larry
- Christopher James Culberson as Tom
- Renzo Lewis as Officer Hernandez
- Glen Marzillo as Craig
Related
- Double Daddy (2015)
- Double Mommy (2016)
- Babysitter's Black Book (2015)
- Bad Sister (2015)
- Stalked at 17 (2012)
Trivia
- Peter Strauss is best known for the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man.
- Christopher Kriesa, who plays David, also appears in Stalked at 17 (2012) as the landlord.
- Charles Christopher, who plays Larry, also appears in Killer Coach (2016).
- Writer Barbara Kymlicka and director Doug Campbell worked together again on Bad Sister (2015).
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Production
Sugar Daddies was directed by Doug Campbell from a screenplay by Barbara Kymlicka, and produced by Ken Sanders and Robert Ballo, with Timothy O. Johnson as executive producer. Leigh Lisbão Underwood was director of photography, Bob Joyce edited the film and Steve Gurevitch wrote the music.
The film sits alongside Babysitter's Black Book (2015), made by the same producers a few months later, as a story about young women who turn to older men for money. The same team also made Double Daddy (2015) and Double Mommy (2016).
