9.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama • 2025 • 124 min
Sugarhouse (2025)
Sugarhouse (2025)
Overview
Sugarhouse is a family drama directed by Frederick C. Jones and Shirlee Wilson. Sweet-natured teenager Maisie (Alivia Roach) and headstrong sister Cricket (Tess Farrar) are abandoned by their outlaw father and seek aid from estranged brother Finn (Caleb Ebert), a haunted drifter. The tender story unfolds in rural Missouri.
Starring Cast
Alivia Roach • Caleb Ebert • Tess Farrar
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
9.2
Overview
Sugarhouse is a family drama directed by Frederick C. Jones and Shirlee Wilson. Sweet-natured teenager Maisie (Alivia Roach) and headstrong sister Cricket (Tess Farrar) are abandoned by their outlaw father and seek aid from estranged brother Finn (Caleb Ebert), a haunted drifter. The tender story unfolds in rural Missouri.
Starring Cast
Alivia Roach • Caleb Ebert • Tess Farrar
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
Political: Leans Right
Confidence: High
The film's focus on restoring family bonds through faith and forgiveness aligns with conservative emphases on tradition and personal responsibility. This narrative solution to familial dysfunction determines a right-leaning orientation.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The film employs traditional casting with a white ensemble in core family roles, showing no recasting of traditionally white characters with minorities. Its narrative upholds family unity and faith without negative portrayals or critiques of conventional identities.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High
The film depicts a fractured rural family where siblings strive to reunite amid abandonment and illness, portraying faith, love, and forgiveness as vital forces in mending ties and achieving redemption. This emphasis on resilient family bonds and spiritual guidance favors traditional values despite the initial dysfunction.
Christianity: Positive
Confidence: High
The film presents Christian faith as essential to overcoming family adversity, emphasizing prayer and God's enduring presence as sources of hope and unity.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
No transgender characters or themes appear in the film. The narrative centers on a family drama of abandonment and reconciliation among siblings, without any exploration of transsexual identity.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Sugarhouse presents an original story of siblings navigating family abandonment, with all characters created for the film and no evidence of gender alterations from prior canon.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Sugarhouse presents an original narrative with newly created characters lacking prior canonical racial depictions, precluding any race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
9.8
8.6
Critic Ratings
N/A
N/A
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