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Brown Sugar (2002)
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
“When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?”
Romance, Comedy · 1h 49m
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.
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
R
Reggi Wyns
Ten
M
Melissa Martínez
Meghan
A
Aaliyyah Hill
Young Sidney
Marc John Jefferies
Young Dre
Crew
- Director
- Rick Famuyiwa
- Screenplay
- Michael Elliot, Rick Famuyiwa
- Director of Photography
- Enrique Chediak
- Original Music Composer
- Robert Hurst
- Editor
- Dirk Westervelt
- Producer
- Peter Heller
Details
- Release date
- 2002-10-05
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Fox Searchlight Pictures, Evergreen Productions, Heller Highwater Productions, Magic Johnson Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $27,362,712