Film

Brown Sugar

2002 · 1h 49m · Romance · Comedy

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

IMDb

6.5

Rotten Tomatoes

66%

Metacritic

58

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.

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

Angie Martinez

Self (Radio DJ)

Rosalyn Coleman

Trish Hofmann

Keith Tisdell

Richard Lawson

Venida Evans

Older Woman

• Rick FamuyiwaDirector · Screenplay
• Michael ElliotScreenplay · Story
• Peter HellerProducer
• Magic JohnsonExecutive Producer
• Enrique ChediakDirector of Photography
• Robert HurstOriginal Music Composer
• Dirk WesterveltEditor
• Alexa L. FogelCasting

Brown Sugar Movie Trailer

Release date

October 5, 2002

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$27,362,712

Genres

Romance, Comedy

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