“Brown Sugar” (*1/2 out of four) was a sour urban melodrama about a young woman (Shamia Lassiter) desperate for money who turns to the streets and to prostitution and gets involved with a kingpin drug dealer (Leon Griffin) and has to use all her survival skills to stay alive. Sleazy story filled with unlikeable characters and you really don’t care about who’s doing what to whom and who comes out on top. Allegedly inspired by the D’Angelo song of the same name but other D’Angelo song titles “Ain’t That Easy” and “1000 Deaths” are more apt descriptions of the proceedings.

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