B00A2J94CO

024543065494

2002

2002-10-11

109

1h 49min

Awards, 2 wins & 18 nominations

Rick Famuyiwa

Michael Elliot, Rick Famuyiwa

Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Yasiin Bey

Peter Heller, Trish Hofmann, Magic Johnson

Robert Hurst

Jeff Barnett, Enrique Chediak

Dirk Westervelt

Alexa L. Fogel

Kalina Ivanov

David Stein

Roberta J. Holinko

Darryle Johnson

Kate Best, Joseph A. Campayno, Carol Ci Ci Campbell, Roxanna Floyd, Anita Gibson, Quentin Harris, Sandra Murphy, Julie Taylor, Christine Domaniecki

Sean Garrett Fogel, Trish Hofmann

Louis Guerra, Jono Oliver, Rebecca Strickland, Mark C. Hutchinson

Shirley Belwood, Coburn Boyd, Suzanne E. Cestare, Thomas Costabile, Ruth Deleon, Peter Gelfman, Tim Grimes, Michael Herlihy, Nora Kasarda, Monique Mitchell, Gregory Morell, Lyvan A. Munlyn, Gus Papadopoulos, Addison Pettit, Greg Sullivan, Bryan Tonkin, Alyssa Winter, Kate Yatsko, Harriet Zucker, Maximilian De Armon

Steve Bartkowicz, Matt Colleran, Victor Ray Ennis, Robert Fernandez, Stephanie Flack, Paul Flinchbaugh, Alan Freedman, Gary Gegan, Greg Hedgepath, Michael Hertlein, Daniel S. Irwin, David Kudell, Tommy Louie, Diane Marshall, Michael Mullane, Schavaria Reeves, William Sarokin, Anne Slack, Alec St. John, Roland N. Thai, Kerry Carmean-Williams, Jessica B. Schultz, John Soukup

Steve Caldwell, Mark Dornfeld, Adam Gass, Laurie Powers Going, Shaina Holmes, Susan Shin George, David Smithson

G.A. Aguilar, Dakota Anderson, Sean P. Anderson, Jeff Blatnick, Douglas Crosby, John W. Moyler, Stephen A. Pope, Derrick Simmons

Will Arnot, K.C. Bailey, David E. Baron, Hugo Bonilla, Andrew Casey, Nicolas L. Charuet, Sam Chase, William Coleman, Jeffrey A. Danielson, Howard Davidson, Keith Devlin, Glen Engels, Dennis Green, Michael Green, Richard Guinness Jr., Marc Hirschfeld, Jacqui Howell, Nils Johnson, Patrick McGrath, Andrew Priestley, Joseph Quirk, Rick Raphael, James Scutakes, Amy Silverman, Mark Summers, Joel Tishcoff, Aurelia Winborn, James J. Ferris, Jon W. Rosenbloom

Heather Baird, Barbara Harris, Tuffy Questell

Harper Della-Piana, Careen Fowles, Rachel Leek, Jill Merritt, Kim Wilcox, Eden Miller, Angielette Smith

Gary Burritt, Josh Campbell, Dennis McNeill, Mark Nakamine, Sandra Nash, DeNon Porter, Michael Sherman, Joe Violante

Beth Avery, Robert Cavalluzzo, Amy R. Gorin, Kim Noble, Tom Yeager, Michael Fucci

Jim Black, Sherree Patrice Brown, Josh Campbell, Barry Cole, Christopher Covert, Robert Hurst, Scott Kinsey, Bernie Kirsch, Robert Kraft, Bennie Maupin, Damion Reed, Brian Richards, Sharisse Rogers, Mark Skillingberg, Nick Smith, Steve Tavaglione, Marilyn Batchelor, Christine Bergren, Thomas Cavanaugh, Celeste Chada, Danielle Diego

Deirdre Horgan

Peter Clores, Steven R. Hammond, David Conelli

David Acampora, Leon Adair Jr., Jackie Bazan, LaWanda Black, Dawn Bridgewater, Kija Brooks, Dalia Burde, Cassandra Butcher, Leo Driver, Danielle Franco, Laurie Gershon, Eliot Gerstel, Joshua C. Hersko, Terrell John, Alma Victoria LeMarr, Josh Michael, Meegan Neeb, Heather Neeld, Chris Peterson, Damion Reed, Mike Reilly, J. Max Ruschak, Kathi Scharer, Darryl A. Smith, Eugene Stamos, Tony Touch, Lisa Varley, Reid Warman, Marcus Woods, Arif S. Kinchen, Tony Phillippe, Frank Slaten

Comedy, Drama, Music

Searchlight Pictures, Evergreen Productions, Heller Highwater Productions

USA

English

PG-13

6.4

9650

58

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, A&R Andre and Editor-in-Chief Sidney. The two can attribute their friendship and the launch of their careers to a single, seminal childhood moment – the day they discovered hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, as they lay down the tracks toward their futures, hip-hop isn t the only thing that keeps them coming back to that moment on the corner.

The movie was released in the US on October 11, 2002 and ran for 16 weeks, grossing $27,363,891 domestically and $952,560 in the foreign sector for a worldwide total of $28,316,451.

$8,000,000 (estimated)

$10,738,882

$27,363,891

$28,316,451

Feel good romance,hip hop music,hip hop,record company,writer