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Brown Sugar

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

2002 · PG-13 · 1h 49m

Directed by Rick Famuyiwa

6.7

TMDB audience score
131 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • 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

  • Breece Wilson
    Woman

  • Brette Taylor
    Woman 2