Brown Sugar

This Throwback Sunday we remember Brown Sugar. Just when I thought I had seen every possible variation of an American Romantic Comedy, along came Brown Sugar in 2002 to really take the genre and throw it in a new and surprising direction. This is especially true for African-American comedies, as the tired recreation of romantic comedies from Hollywood period were starting to take its toll on me.

"Brown Sugar is a celebration of love, and a mourning of the death of hip-hop music. It is the second film from director Rick Famuyiwa to explore the roots that tie African Americans to hip-hop, the first being his 1999 comedy 'The Wood.' Famuyiwa obviously has a fondness for the early-80s era of street corner rhymes and break dancing, and he translates that love without a drip of sweat. 'Brown Sugar' is more about the loss of dignity that hip-hop is currently going through, and how that loss parallels the ascent into adulthood for most individuals." - Brian Orndorf

Here is the trailer:



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