
Feature film — 2002
Brown Sugar (2002)
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.
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A high-signal pick with 131 votes.
Fox Searchlight Pictures / Evergreen Productions / Heller Highwater Productions / Magic Johnson Entertainment / 20th Century Fox
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Director: Rick Famuyiwa
On screen
Cast & crew

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
Reggi Wyns
Ten
Melissa Martínez
Meghan
Aaliyyah Hill
Young Sidney

Marc John Jefferies
Young Dre
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