Taglines: He wanted power. He wanted revenge. Now he just wants out.
Sugar Hill movie storyline. Through the course of the film, several flashbacks are shown involving the Skuggs brothers, including (in the beginning of the film) the drug-overdose death of their mother Ella (Khandi Alexander), the non-fatal shooting of their drug-addicted musician father, Arthur Romello “A.R.” Skuggs (Clarence Williams III) (ultimately at the hands of the man they would later work for—Gus Molino (Abe Vigoda), and a scene where Roemello is offered a full scholarship to Georgetown.
Roemello, as a teenager (Dulé Hill) avenges his father’s shooting by shooting and killing Sal Marconi (Raymond Serra), a business partner of Gus’s. After contemplating for a while, Roemello decides to quit dealing and start a new life with his girlfriend, Melissa (Theresa Randle), to the disdain of Raynathan, who is scared and hesitant to leave the drug game. However, Roemello learns that getting out is nowhere near as easy as getting in.
A series of events lead up to Roemello’s eventual departure from the drug game, such as the death of his best friend, Ricky Goggles (Steve Harris) at the hands of an up-and-coming Brooklyn drug dealer and former boxing champion, Lolly Jonas (Ernie Hudson). The Skuggs brothers and their associates find Ricky’s burned body hanging from the side of a neighborhood apartment building. They later go after and then kill Tony Adamo, one of the other men responsible for Ricky Goggles’ death. Because of this, an eventual street war starts off between The Skuggs crew and Lolly’s organization.
Melissa becomes more hesitant of being involved with Roemello, because of his lifestyle. After learning of the death of an aspiring teenage “stick-up kid”, Kymie (Donald Faison) in Roemello’s neighborhood (Kymie, in fact, saves Roemello’s life in a drive-in shooting by Lolly’s people), she decides to break off with Roemello and would have one date with an abusive basketball star, Mark Doby (Vondie Curtis Hall). After an episode where Mark physically abused Melissa, she eventually returns to Roemello and they begin to make plans to leave New York City.
Sugar Hill is a 1994 American crime film starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright as brothers Roemello and Raynathan Skuggs. The film focuses on the two brothers, who are major drug dealers in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
Sugar Hill (1994)
Directed by: Leon Ichaso
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams, Abe Vigoda, Ernie Hudson, Anthony Thomas, DeVaughn Nixon, Steve Harris, Kimberly Russell
Screenplay by: Barry Michael Cooper
Production Design by: Michael Helmy
Cinematography by: Bojan Bazelli
Film Editing by: Gary Karr
Costume Design by: Eduardo Castro
Set Decoration by: Kathryn Peters
Art Direction by: Jay Jergensen
Music by: Terence Blanchard
MPAA Rating: R for intense drug related violence, graphic heroin use and strong language.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: February 25, 1994
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