Sugar Hill Movie Review 1994

Two brothers (Wright & Snipes) are heroin dealers who have built their own crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Snipes is moved to reconsider his career options when he falls for an aspiring actress (Randle). Jarring editing sequence recaps the seminal event in the brothers' upbringing and serves to explain how the wide-eyed boys became cold-blooded pushers. Good performances by all, but formulaic plot will leave viewers asking themselves if they haven't seen it before and why it was they saw it then.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 123 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Urban Drama, Smuggler's Blues, Brothers & Sisters, African America, New York, New York

Screenplay

Barry Michael Cooper

Cast

Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams, Abe Vigoda, Ernie Hudson, Larry Joshua, Leslie Uggams, Khandi Alexander, Raymond Serra, Joe Dallesandro, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Steve Harris, Kimberly Russell, Dule Hill, Donald Adeosun Faison, Nick(y) Corello

Cinematography

Bojan Bazelli

Director

Leon Ichaso

Music

Terence Blanchard

Producer

Gregory Brown, Rudy Langlais, Armyan Bernstein, Tom Rosenberg, Marc Abraham, South Street Entertainment, Beacon Films