Brown Sugar

Name: Brown Sugar
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Music
Released: October 11, 2002
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Mos Def, Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs

2002

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 11, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Mos Def, Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs

Summary: Dre (Diggs) and Sidney (Lathan) 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 theirDre (Diggs) and Sidney (Lathan) 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. (Fox Searchlight)… Expand

Director: Rick Famuyiwa

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 109 min

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Carla Meyer

Delightful love story. Read full review

James Berardinelli

What Brown Sugar lacks in originality, it makes up for in charm. Read full review

Jami Bernard

The vitality of the hip-hop scene serves as both backdrop and metaphor in a romantic comedy as sweet as its title. Read full review

Connie Ogle

Hits the parallels between love and hip-hop a little too hard when the message is relatively easy to grasp: Don't sell out: not your art, not your heart. If only music business executives were listening. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Isn't much more than another conveyer-belt romantic comedy. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

Represents a kind of progress. Where once only a few ultra-talented, lucky black filmmakers got to make big studio movies, now we have standard-issue Hollywood schlock that happens to be made by, about and for African-Americans. Read full review

Michael Miller

Draws a belabored association between romance and hip-hop, and it's hard not to wish the parallel lines would hurry up and converge. Read full review

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