Brown Sugar (2002)

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CinemaSource

Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Oct 11, 2002

Running Time: 109 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Queen Latifah, Mos Def, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, Erik Weiner, Reggi Wyns, Wendell Pierce, Melissa Martinez

director: Rick Famuyiwa

Brown Sugar

Dre and Sidney can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single childhood moment--the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic and he is a successful, though unfulfilled music executive. 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 that they both can't seem to forget.

Two childhood friends discover that their love for hip-hop not only launched their careers, it's also a bond between them that is not as platonic as they would like to believe.

Story

July 1984 was an important time in the lives of Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan): That summer, they met on a street corner in New York City and fell in love--with hip-hop music. Fifteen years later, Dre is a successful music executive for Millennium Records while Sidney is an esteemed music writer for XXL.…