Brown Sugar (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Rick Famuyiwa |
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| Story by | Michael Elliot |
| Produced by | Peter Heller |
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| Cinematography | Enrique Chediak |
| Edited by | Dirk Westervelt |
| Music by | Robert Hurst |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $28.3 million |
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.
The movie was released in the US on October 11, 2002, and ran for 16 weeks, grossing $27,363,891 domestically and $952,560 in the foreign sector for a worldwide total of $28,316,451.