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Brown Sugar is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rick Famuyiwa released in USA on 5 october 2002 with Taye Diggs
Brown Sugar (2002)
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Add to a movie listBrown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. The film is a story of a lifelong friends, A&R Andre and Editor-in-Chief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment - the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn't the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner.
The movie was released in the US on October 11, 2002 and ran for 16 weeks, grossing $27,363,891 domestically and $952,560 in the foreign sector for a worldwide total of $28,316,451.
Synopsis
Brown sugar is the film that follows the evolving relationship between Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), an attractive young woman who has just been appointed the editor-in-chief of the hip-hop magazine XXL, and Dre (Taye Diggs), an A&R for Millennium Records. They have been bound together since their early childhood. The news that Dre is preparing to be married to Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), a successful entertainment attorney, sends Sidney into a subconscious tizzy.Actors
Taye Diggs
(Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis)
Wendell Pierce
(Simon)
Sanaa Lathan
(Sidney 'Sid' Shaw)
Mos Def
(Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon)
Marc John Jefferies
(Young Dre)
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