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Brown Sugar
MEANRANK
71/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.
Details
- Director
- Rick Famuyiwa
- Writers
- Michael Elliot, Rick Famuyiwa
- Studio
- Fox Searchlight Pictures, Evergreen Productions, Heller Highwater Productions, Magic Johnson Entertainment
- Released
- 5 October 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $27.4M
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