Brown Sugar (2002 film)

Brown Sugar
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Rick Famuyiwa
Screenplay by	Michael Elliot Rick Famuyiwa
Story by	Michael Elliot
Produced by	Magic Johnson Peter Heller
Starring	Taye Diggs Sanaa Lathan Mos Def Nicole Ari Parker Boris Kodjoe Queen Latifah
Cinematography	Enrique Chediak Jeff Barnett
Edited by	Dirk Westervelt
Music by	Robert Hurst
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date	October 11, 2002 (2002-10-11)
Running time	109 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$8 million[1]
Box office	$28.3 million[1]

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 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.