Brown Sugar- I have watched this about three years ago and I can remember it just like yesterday. I love romantic films and this movie added to my list. This movie falls in the genre of comedy and romance. It was released in the year 2002. The length of this film is about 1 hour and 50 minutes. Brown Sugar was directed by Rick Famuyiwa and produced by Earvin Johnson, Peter Heller, and Trish Huffman. The great stars were Taye Diggs (Dre), Sanaa Lathan (Sidney), Queen Latifah, Dante 'Mos Def' Smith, and Nicole Ari-Parker.
This movie is a combination of hip-hop culture, romance, and how people relate to each other. This movie could easily be called a hip hop love story! IT was filmed in Hew York and showed many scenes of days of hiphop on the corners on streets of New York. The story basically depicted some themes of the 'Wood.'
Dre (Taye) and Sidney (Sanaa) had an amazing friendship which they nurtured from childhood. They found this friendship due to their common love for hiphop and was depicted in the movie as the founders of hip hop from their very early age as children. Sidney's love for music led her to choose her career in music as she was a music critic fifteen years later. Dre, on the other hand, became a music executive. Though the music kept their childhood friendship to grow they stared falling in love with each other in the latter parts of the movie. At times they would react naive about their emotions for each other. Dre had issues with his firm and so decided to branch off on his own. He got a loan from his long time friend Sidney. In the beginning they both had no concern for romance for each other because they were both in relationships. Their respective relationships apparently did not work out so they started admitting to their long time disguised interest in each other. They eventually got together and it was so beautiful.
I enjoyed Mos Def's performance, he was so cool and hot! He depicted this poor cab driver who had talent. He turned out finding romance too while enjoying hip-hop. The ladies in this movie were all beautiful and were all dressed in great fashions. The men on a whole were fashionable too and all looked so handsome. The characters in this movie all had wonderful performances and if you are a lover of romantic films, you would readily agree.
I enjoyed this romance comedy with black people because most times they are left out of true romantic films. This movie also had some surprises and tempo. There were moments when the scenes appeared as if something was going to happen ...then nothing! Kind of built up your adrenaline in a happy way. I am sure you understood the reasons I like this film. I recommend you see this movie, if you have not yet done so. You may two links below for information about this film. This film could be described as a tribute to hip-hop and a celebration of friendship and love!
www.celebritywonder.com/movie/2002_Brown_Sugar.html
http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aabrownsugarsoundtrack.htm
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