Movie · Comedy · Romance

Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) and Dre (Taye Diggs) have been friends since they were ten years old. What brought them together? A love for a burgeoning new music style called hip-hop. 20 years later, Dre is the owner of a successful record company and Sidney is a respected and hard-nosed music journalist, and both are still friends... close friends. So close, in fact, that everyone around them is surprised that they haven’t gotten romantically involved with the other. When Dre proposes to his beautiful lawyer girlfriend Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), Sidney begins to question her own relationship with her boyfriend. As Dre’s wedding day draws nearer, Sidney begins to fear that Dre has always been the love of her life and she’s let him slip through her hands. Legendary basketball player-turned-entrepreneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson served as executive producer of this smart urban love story.

2002 · 1h 49m
Director Rick Famuyiwa

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Brown Sugar

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Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) and Dre (Taye Diggs) have been friends since they were ten years old. What brought them together? A love for a burgeoning new music style called hip-hop. 20 years later, Dre is the owner of a successful record company and Sidney is a respected and hard-nosed music journalist, and both are still friends... close friends. So close, in fact, that everyone around them is surprised that they haven’t gotten romantically involved with the other. When Dre proposes to his beautiful lawyer girlfriend Reese (Nicole Ari Parker), Sidney begins to question her own relationship with her boyfriend. As Dre’s wedding day draws nearer, Sidney begins to fear that Dre has always been the love of her life and she’s let him slip through her hands. Legendary basketball player-turned-entrepreneur Earvin “Magic” Johnson served as executive producer of this smart urban love story.

COMMON SENSE

Hip-hop inspired romcom has language, sexual references.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.3
Reviews 87
Fresh 57
Rotten 30

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Studio
Fox Searchlight
Released
2002
Run Time
1 hr 49 min
Rated
PG-13
Region of Origin
United States
© 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), Dutch , French (France) , German (Germany) , Portuguese (Brazil) , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Turkish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.