SUGAR HILL [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1994
• Genre: Drama; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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 businessman who stays away from his own merchandise, wears expensive cashmere coats and other colorful clothes, and lives in a beautiful uptown apartment, while being plagued by guilt. Raynathan, however, is losing his battle with drug addiction and spiraling downward. Roemello runs the family drug business with the help of an old-fashioned mob boss, Gus Molino (Abe Vigoda), whose grocery is a front for the dealing. To fuel his doubts, Roemello becomes involved with a beautiful aspiring actress, Melissa (Theresa Randle), and she urges him to get out of the drug business. But a rival dealer, Lolly Jonas (Ernie Hudson), cuts into Roemello territory, there is a brutally violent turf war, and Roemello must decide whether to defend or abandon his livelihood.
• Cast: Nick Corello; Leslie Uggams; Natalie Venetia Belcon; Brendan Jefferson; Wesley Snipes; Khandi Alexander; Devaughn Nixon; Marquise Wilson; O.L. Duke; Clarence Williams III; Abe Vigoda; Anthony Thomas; Michael Wright; John Pittman; Steve Harris; Michael Guess; Kimberly Russell; Theresa Randle; Abdul Mutakabbir; Yusaf Ramadan; Karl Johnson; Andre Lamal; Dulé Hill; Sam Gordon; Larry Joshua; Raymond Serra; Frank Ferrara; Donald Faison; Bryan Clark; Lord Michael Banks; Alex Brown; Joe Dallesandro; Ernie Hudson; Denetria Champ; Phyromn Taylor; Sam Bottoms; Maria R. Kelly; Vondie Curtis-Hall; Leon Ichaso; Barry Michael Cooper; Greg Brown; Rudy Langlais; Bojan Bazelli; Gary Karr; Terence Blanchard
• Director: Leon Ichaso
• Runtime: 2:03
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie