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When did you first fall in love with hip-hop? - Brown Sugar
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Title: Brown Sugar

Release Date: 5 Oct 2002

Runtime: 1h 49m

Genre: Romance, Comedy

Director: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Evergreen Productions, Heller Highwater Productions, Magic Johnson Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Evergreen Productions, Heller Highwater Productions, Magic Johnson Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.672 (116 votes)

Cast

  • Sidney 'Sid' Shaw: Sanaa Lathan
  • Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis: Taye Diggs
  • Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon: Yasiin Bey
  • Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis: Nicole Ari Parker
  • Kelby Dawson: Boris Kodjoe
  • Francine: Queen Latifah
  • Simon: Wendell Pierce
  • Ren: Erik Weiner
  • Ten: Reggi Wyns
  • Meghan: Melissa Martínez
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