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.
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- Cast：
- Sanaa Lathan , Taye Diggs , Yasiin Bey , Nicole Ari Parker , Boris Kodjoe , Queen Latifah , Wendell Pierce
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
I really enjoyed this film. It brings the realness back to hip hop. You can tell how much the director really loves hip hop in the way he shows how it started and how far its come, to the messages it gives the listener.This film make hip hop in a league of its own, and brings it back to the roots of hip hop itself.Having all the rappers talking about how they 1st got into hip hop at the beginning of the film really makes you think how influential music can become and how it can change people's lives, whether it be through listening to it, or having such a strong passion for it, that you have a sense of community with other hip hop lovers..Definitely see this film if you love origins of hip hop as well as a beautiful love story thrown in. Every guy wants the girl and every girl wants the guy (TAYE DIGGS AND MOS DEF ARE BEAUTIFUL IN THIS FILM!)
SPOILERS THROUGHOUT:Brown Sugar was better then I thought it would be, mainly due to the chemistry of the two leads. They have the kind of chemistry where you just feel how right the two characters are for each other from the beginning and you root for them through the whole movie.For a movie about hip hop, there didn't seem to be a lot of music. This is the kind of movie that non hip hop lovers can easily enjoy because the hip hop isn't overdone, they give you just enough but not so much where it overshadows the movie. This is also a movie that's refreshing in the natural way it progresses. The dialog is so down to earth to the point where some of the lines are spot on with certain things I've heard people say-almost verbatim. You kind of get the feeling, the writer knew how people who deal with the issues the movie characters grapple with here, actually speak in real life.In spite of the theme of hip hop I wouldn't call this a movie about hip hop. It's really about idealism. The two main characters have gone through life with a fierce love of hip hop and that love has shaped everything they've ever done. I think anyone who's had a deep passion for something will be able to relate and it doesn't matter if that passion is Hiphop, heavy metal, pop or something other then music-like movies. These individuals are fighting to hold onto the innocence of just loving something without any agenda and discovering, that growing up does not mean an end to idealism. It's as much a coming of age tale as a movie about hip hop.And it doesn't fall into any real genre either because it isn't a comedy(I have no idea how it got lumped into that category.) The movie wasn't perfect, it dragged at times and the end had a really unreal quality, unlike the rest of the picture but it was still a good movie.The cheating aspect disturbed me as it did other reviewers, but how it played out was not all that unrealistic. This movie has been compared to When Harry met Sally and I actually find this a bit more realistic, though I like Harry/Sally a bit more. Brown sugar wouldn't be half as good without the charisma of the two main performers and the supporting cast are great too. This movie's message is clearly not to let go of your dreams and never sell out. It's been done a million times before but the message happens to be an important one so who cares if it's done a million more times as long as it's done well? And it is here. My vote is 7.5 of 10.
I put this movie in the same category as The Wood. Here it's all about an era, were the music meant everything from the DJ to the MC. In the movie you have a brother who loves the music, and a woman who can't understand the brother's love for it and how it seems to drive him. On the flip side you have another woman that understands the brother, and supports the brother (take note ladies SUPPORT we need it). What makes this a good movie, or love story is it could really happen. Imagine finding a supportive soulmate who is down for you, and you could relate to on many levels. However, often times that is never who you end up with for one reason or another. If your feeling this holla back.
I expected to enjoy a romantic comedy featuring Hip Hop, but was disappointed on many levels. First of all, the story is so badly recycled as to make it almost unbearable. Second, the setting, acting and story are not very authentic or believable. Third, there are a lot more good black actors to choose from than these standard picks. How about some originality? Third, there were very few Hip Hop songs played in entirity - if any. None seemd really central. Overall, film was a great disappointment, but the editing style was very interesting and almost made the film worthwhile.
