Brown Sugar

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.

Sanaa Lathan

Sidney 'Sid' Shaw

Taye Diggs

Andre Romulus 'Dre' Ellis

Yasiin Bey

Chris Anton 'Cav' Vichon

Nicole Ari Parker

Reese Marie Wiggam Ellis

Boris Kodjoe

Kelby Dawson

Queen Latifah

Francine

Wendell Pierce

Simon

Erik Weiner

Ren

Reggi Wyns

Ten

Melissa Martínez

Meghan

Rick Famuyiwa

Director

Michael Elliot

Screenplay

Peter Heller

Producer

Enrique Chediak

Director of Photography

Dirk Westervelt

Editor

Robert Hurst

Original Music Composer

Jono Oliver

First Assistant Director

Rebecca Strickland

Second Assistant Director

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Heller Highwater Productions

Evergreen Productions

Magic Johnson Entertainment