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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 26, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def & Taye Diggs | |
Performer: | Queen Latifah, Nicole Ari Parker, Method Man & Boris Kodjoe | |
Featured: | Kool G. Rap & De La Soul | |
Directed by | Rick Famuyiwa | |
Edited by | Dirk Westervelt | |
Music by | Robert Hurst | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Elliott & Rick Famuyiwa | |
Cameo: | Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick, Dana Dane, Kool G. Rap & Russell Simmons | |
Produced by | Peter Heller | |
Director of Photography: | Enrique Chediak | |
Executive Production by | Earvin "Magic" Johnson |
Entertainment Reviews:
All in all, Brown Sugar is a satisfying well-made romantic comedy that's both charming and well acted. It will guarantee to have you leaving the theater with a smile on your face.
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Katrillion.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Takes every convention of the romantic comedy genre and turns it on its ear.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/4 --
Lathan and Diggs make an immensely likable couple, and the supporting cast strikes all the right notes.
Seattle Times
Brown Sugar manages to take hip-hop's well-established history and make it digestible for audiences not necessarily tied directly into the core of that culture.
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IGN Movies
...Sufficiently smooth, sexy and tuneful....Parker and Kodjoe sizzle...
Variety
...A film whose tough choices and bittersweet ending keep it real...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
Hip-hop rarely comes alive as its own fire-breathing entity in this picture.
Creative Loafing
Product Description:
Rick Famuyiwa breathes a refreshing burst of air into the romantic comedy genre with BROWN SUGAR, a film that is as much a tribute to hip-hop as it is a celebration of friendship and love. Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), best friends since elementary school, have been in love with rap music since they can remember. It has even carried through into their adult lives. Dre is making a successful living as a record executive, while Sidney has just taken over as editor-in-chief at one of the hip-hop community's most popular magazines. Somehow, romance has never been an issue between the two, until they both find new loves of their own--for Dre, it's the beautiful Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), for Sidney, it's basketball star Kelby (Boris Kodjoe). Disillusioned with the lackluster music that his label continually puts out, Dre decides to branch out on his own. Sidney gives him a loan to support his bold new venture, but it is this unflinching support that eventually begins to grate on Reese and Kelby, forcing Dre and Sidney to confront their true feelings. Famuyiwa's crowd-pleasing film is boosted by Mos Def and Queen Latifah's hysterical supporting performances.
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