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Brown Sugar (2002)
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Yasiin Bey, Nicole Ari Parker
Runtime109 min
RatingPG-13
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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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Fans of romance and hip-hop culture will especially appreciate the 2002 film Brown Sugar, directed by Rick Famuyiwa. It features standout performances from Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs as childhood friends whose lifelong bond is intertwined with the birth and rise of the genre they're passionate about.
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Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Rick Famuyiwa, written by Famuyiwa and Michael Elliot, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. The film is a story of lifelong friends, A&R Andre and Editor-in-Chief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment – the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, 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.
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