Brown Sugar (2002 film)

Brown Sugar is a 2002 American romantic comedy film written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, directed by Famuyiwa, and starring Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan. The film is a story of a lifelong friends, AampR Andre and EditorinChief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment the day they discovered hiphop on a New York street corner. Now someyears later, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hiphop isnt the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner.

Brown sugar is the film that follows the evolving relationship between Sidney Sanaa Lathan, an attractive young woman who has just been appointed the editorinchief of the hiphop magazine XXL, and Dre Taye Diggs, an AampR for Millennium Records. They have been bound together since their early childhood. The news that Dre is preparing to be married to Reese Nicole Ari Parker, a successful entertainment attorney, sends Sidney into a subconscious tizzy.Suddenly, she doesnt seem to know how to behave around Dre anymore, and an impulsive kiss on the eve before his wedding sends fissures of doubt cracking in every direction. Dre gets married and begins to settle into his life when a decision to sign an untalented but commercially viable rap group forces Dre to choose between his love for true Hip Hop and his job. Subsequently he quits his job to start his own record company focused on bringing back the real hip hop that his generation fell in love with. Reese, however, is not understanding and thus not supportive of this venture. Additionally as Sidney draws closer to Dre due to their partnership in the label, jealousy develops over Dre and Sidneys friendship. ........

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