Brown Sugar poster
Director Rick Famuyiwa
Screenplay Rick Famuyiwa, Michael Elliot

Brown Sugar

Tagline: When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?

Release Date: 2002-10-05

Duration: 109 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Sanaa Lathan
    Sidney 'Sid' Shaw
  • Queen Latifah
    Francine
  • Liza Lapira
    Hot 97 Receptionist
  • Taye Diggs
    Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis
  • Wendell Pierce
    Simon
  • Common
    Self
  • Sterling K. Brown
    Co-Worker
  • Joanie Laurer
    Woman at Party (uncredited)
  • Nicole Ari Parker
    Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis
  • Method Man
    Self