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Brown Sugar

When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?

6.62002PG-131h 49mEnglish

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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RomanceComedy
Starring

Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Yasiin Bey

Directed by

Rick Famuyiwa

Brown Sugar

RomanceComedy

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.

When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?

Information

Released
Oct 5, 2002
Runtime
1h 49m
Status
Released

Language & origin

Original audio
English
Country
US
Rating
PG-13
Directed by
Rick Famuyiwa

Production

Studio
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Studio
Evergreen Productions
Studio
Heller Highwater Productions
Studio
Magic Johnson Entertainment
Studio
20th Century Fox

People in this story

Sanaa LathanSidney 'Sid' Shaw
Taye DiggsAndre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis
Yasiin BeyChris Anton 'Cav' Vichon
Nicole Ari ParkerReese Marie Wiggam Ellis
Boris KodjoeKelby Dawson
Queen LatifahFrancine
Wendell PierceSimon
Erik WeinerRen
RReggi WynsTen
MMelissa MartínezMeghan
AAaliyyah HillYoung Sidney
Marc John JefferiesYoung Dre

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