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Sugar Hill (1994)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:2

Rotten:7

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Roemello Skuggs has seen a lot of pain and tragedy in his life: his mother overdosed on heroin when he was just a child, his father was seriously shot by a vengeful drug lord, and his brother... Roemello Skuggs has seen a lot of pain and tragedy in his life: his mother overdosed on heroin when he was just a child, his father was seriously shot by a vengeful drug lord, and his brother Raynathan has followed in their parents' footsteps, both taking and dealing narcotics. Roemello wants out of this dangerous and destructive world... but somehow events keep conspiring to pull him back in. [More]

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Clarence Williams, Theresa Randle

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Clarence Williams, Theresa Randle, Abe Vigoda, Ernie Hudson

Director: Leon Ichaso

Director: Leon Ichaso
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Screenwriter: Barry Michael Cooper
Producer: Rudy Langlais, Gregory Brown

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Scott Weinberg

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.

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Ryan Cracknell

There are plenty of other ‘want to get out of the business’ movies out there that are more interesting and intriguing.

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Philip Martin

_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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