PG-13 | 1 h 49 min | Comedy | Romance

IMDB 6.5 / 10 (8170 votes)

Brown Sugar (2002)

Brown Sugar

Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both discovered hip-hop for the first time. Now that they're back together, they should be perfect for each other, except that Dre's about to marry lawyer Reese and Sidney claims not to be interested in Dre romantically. Meanwhile, Dre is growing increasingly restless with his company's focus on profit over artistry, which leads to signing the gimmicky duo Ren and Ten while ignoring the talented Chris

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Description

Writers

Rick Famuyiwa
Michael Elliot

Stars

Sanaa Lathan
Sidney 'Syd' Shaw

Taye Diggs
Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis

Yasiin Bey
Chris 'Cav' Anton Vichon

Queen Latifah
fracine

Nicole Ari Parker
Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis

Boris Kodjoe
Kelby Dawson

Sterling K. Brown
Co-Worker

Wendell Pierce
Simon

Big Daddy Kane
Himself

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson
Himself

Others...

Budget

8,000,000.00

Revenue

27,362,712.00

Links

Trailers

Production

N/A

Actor

Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Yasiin Bey, Queen Latifah, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, Sterling K. Brown, Wendell Pierce, Big Daddy Kane, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Kool G Rap, Black Thought, Doug E. Fresh, Pete Rock, Jermaine Dupri, Slick Rick, Russell Simmons, Common, Talib Kweli, Beanie Sigel, Method Man

Creators

Kalina Ivanov (Production Design), Enrique Chediak (Director of Photography), Darryle Johnson (Costume Design), Robert Fernandez (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Rick Famuyiwa (Screenplay), Alexa L. Fogel (Casting), Dirk Westervelt (Editor), Michael Elliot (Screenplay), Gary Gegan (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Robert Hurst (Original Music Composer), Alan Freedman (Foley Mixer), Michael Hertlein (ADR Editor), Deirdre Horgan (Script Supervisor), Rick Raphael (Steadicam Operator), Daniel S. Irwin (Dialogue Editor), Greg Hedgepath (Supervising Sound Editor), Andrew Casey (Camera Operator), K.C. Bailey (Still Photographer), Stephanie Flack (Dialogue Editor), Will Arnot (Camera Operator), Nora Kasarda (Art Department Coordinator), Peter Gelfman (Property Master), William Sarokin (Sound Mixer), Roberta J. Holinko (Set Decoration)

Release dates

05.10.2002 (US)

Brown Sugar (2002)

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