Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

6.7

Oct 05 2002

2h 49m

Romance, Comedy

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

Sanaa Lathan

Sidney 'Sid' Shaw

Taye Diggs

Taye Diggs

Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis

Yasiin Bey

Yasiin Bey

Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon

Nicole Ari Parker

Nicole Ari Parker

Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis

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