Sugar Hill (1994)
- Starring:
- Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, (more)
- Director(s):
- Leon Ichaso
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Drama
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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 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. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 123 mins
Complete Cast:
- Wesley Snipes - Rosemello Skuggs
- Theresa Randle - Melissa
- Abe Vigoda - Gus Molino
- Ernie Hudson - Lolly Jonas
- Khandi Alexander - Ella Skuggs
- Joe Dallesandro - Tony Adamo
- Samuel Bottoms - Oliver Thompson
- John Pittman - Lucky
- Alex Brown - Nigerian #2
- Barbara Cohen
- Anthony Thomas - Worker
- DeVaughn Walter Nixon - Raynathan (Age 11)
- Nicky Corello - Coco
- Donald Faison - Kymie Damiels
- Michael Wright - Raynathan Skuggs
- Clarence Williams III - A.R. Skuggs
- Larry Joshua - Harry Molino
- Leslie Uggams - Doris Holly
- Ray Serra - Sal Marconi
- Vondie Curtis-Hall - Mark Doby
- Andre Lamal - Martin David
- Bryan Clark - Dean
- Mary Gail Artz
- Frank Ferrara - Sal's Bodyguard
- Kimberly Russell - Chantal
- Karl Johnson - Bouncer
- O.L. Duke - Tutty
- Michael Guess - Y.G. (Young Gun)
- Director(s):
- Leon Ichaso
- Writer(s):
- Barry Michael Cooper
- Producer(s):
- Rudy Langlais, Marc Abraham, Gregory Brown
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children)
- Categories:
- Drama
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