Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar
PG-13 | 05 October 2002 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
rmaria300184 I really, really, really love this movie.I'm not the kind of girl that's into romance movie... I find them rather boring. But there's a little list of that genre, and this one it's on the top of the list.I like it because it's refreshing, it has romance and comedy, which isn't a favorite genre of mine either, but this movie mixed them just fine.Well aside from the fact that it takes the most common cliché of all, two best friend that are secretly in love with each other but won't say anything or accept the other advances because they can't risk a long term friendship in case it doesn't work but I love it.I mean you should invest the time.. you won't be disappointed, this is coming from me.
bless1 This movie is ultimately one of the best love stories i have seen on film.You don't even have to like hip hop to enjoy this movie. It will make you laugh, and it will even make you cry(tears of joy). Lathan and Diggs light up the screen together. It's a beautiful love story which sends a message of how to friends can really fall in love. It will certainly make you think twice about that friend of the opposite sex, that you have known for years, that you find attractive, that doesn't have a mate. It's just a wonderful movie to see, its not too raunchy on language or sex scenes. It's kind of funny how something like hip hop music can join two people together.
sara_nouman I really enjoyed this film. It brings the realness back to hip hop. You can tell how much the director really loves hip hop in the way he shows how it started and how far its come, to the messages it gives the listener.This film make hip hop in a league of its own, and brings it back to the roots of hip hop itself.Having all the rappers talking about how they 1st got into hip hop at the beginning of the film really makes you think how influential music can become and how it can change people's lives, whether it be through listening to it, or having such a strong passion for it, that you have a sense of community with other hip hop lovers..Definitely see this film if you love origins of hip hop as well as a beautiful love story thrown in. Every guy wants the girl and every girl wants the guy (TAYE DIGGS AND MOS DEF ARE BEAUTIFUL IN THIS FILM!)
David Hughes You know how some songs sound better when you discover them yourself? That's kind of how this film is... at first glance, the marketing made it look like just another hip-hop romantic comedy - but it's subtler, deeper, sweeter, and more realistic than just about any other love story set in the black community - it really is the "When Harry Met Sally" of hip-hop. Right from the get-go the film startles and confounds, by opening with real life interviews with some of hip hops's biggest names and old school heroes, from De La Soul to Method Man, as it sets up the film's neat parallel lines of Dre's (Taye Diggs) and Sidney's (Sanaa Lathan) love of hip hop run parallel with their love of each other. Of course, there are a few concessions made to the conventions of romantic comedy, but at every turn the film surprises - except one: Mos Def, one of the most naturally gifted actors around, gives yet another nuanced performance as a would-be rapper with his eye on the film's other supporting actor, the indomitable Queen Latifah, here playing a nicely restrained spin on the typical "sassy best friend" which... ugh, just the thought of "Maid in Manhattan" makes me shudder. Bottom line? See this beautifully made movie and tell your friends about it - as I said up front, songs are so much better when you discover them yourself.