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Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died when the boys were young, but their father A.R. Skuggs (Clarence Williams III) survived, remaining a hopeless and frightful heroin addict. Roemello has grown up to be an educated, culturally pretentious
Feb 25, 1994 Wide
Jan 14, 2003
20th Century Fox
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (8) | DVD (5)
While Sugar Hill boasts a hearty collection of excellent performances, those assets are nearly negated by a directorial style that can best be described as...languid.
There are plenty of other 'want to get out of the business' movies out there that are more interesting and intriguing.
_As a message movie, "Sugar Hill" is perhaps no better or worse than most. It can be credited for striving to be more, but striving is not the same thing as being. Snipes deserves a better vehicle than this, but then, one suspects he picked it off the sho
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January 29, 2007
Super Reviewer
In the opening scenes of Leon Ichaso's "Sugar Hill" we see a woman(Khandi Alexander) who is clearly addicted to heroin asks one of her kids to help her tighten a strap around her arm so she can inject the fatal drug. Sadly he agrees since after all he is obeying to mom's orders. The events become tragic and complex as
December 9, 2010Super Reviewer
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