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Brown Sugar
Dir. Rick Famuyiwa
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Brown Sugar
“When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?”
Romance
Comedy
Director
Rick Famuyiwa
Screenplay
Michael Elliot, Rick Famuyiwa
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
Release
Oct 5, 2002
Budget
$8M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$27M
Cast
Sanaa Lathan
Sidney 'Sid' Shaw
Taye Diggs
Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis
Yasiin Bey
Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon
Nicole Ari Parker
Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
Boris Kodjoe
Kelby Dawson
Queen Latifah
Francine
Wendell Pierce
Simon
Erik Weiner
Ren
Marc John Jefferies
Young Dre
Rosalyn Coleman
Trish Hofmann
Venida Evans
Older Woman
Brette Taylor
Woman 2
Donna DuPlantier
Woman 3
Sterling K. Brown
Co-Worker
Helmar Augustus Cooper
Reverend
Toks Olagundoye
Sidney's LA Assistant
Reviews
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