<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $8 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $28,316,451 </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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