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Brown Sugar (2002)

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

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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Cast & Crew

Director
Rick Famuyiwa
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    Sidney 'Sid' Shaw Sanaa Lathan
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    Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis Taye Diggs
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    Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon Yasiin Bey
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    Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis Nicole Ari Parker
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    Kelby Dawson Boris Kodjoe
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    Francine Queen Latifah
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    Simon Wendell Pierce
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    Ren Erik Weiner

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