Brown Sugar (2002)

Lifelong friends Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan originally bonded over a mutual love for hip hop music. Now, with both of them having careers in the industry, they begin rethinking the platonic nature of their relationship. A romantic comedy thrives on the attractiveness of its leads and this film has that in abundance, but the quality of the storytelling is strongest when it focuses more on their love for hip hop than any interest they have in each other. They both are willing to throw away that have much more chemistry. A secondary romance between mutual friends Yasiin Bey and Queen Latifah has cute potential but that opportunity is floundered.