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Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?

Released PG-13 109 min 6.5/10 Votes: 10356
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.
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2002-10-05
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$8M
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$27M

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