Sugar Hill (1994 film)

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Sugar Hill

The movie poster for Sugar Hill.
Directed by Leon Ichaso
Produced by Marc Abraham
Greg Brown
Rudy Langlais
Steven R. McGlothen
Written by Barry Michael Cooper
Starring Wesley Snipes
Michael Wright
Music by Terence Blanchard
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) February 25, 1994
Running time 123 min.
Language English
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Sugar Hill is a 1994 is a crime-drama starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright. The film focuses on two brothers who are major drug dealers in New York but one (Snipes) wishes to leave the trade and start a new life with his girlfriend.

The film is also regarded as making popular the term Akata amongst African Americans.