Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill is a 1994 American crime film directed by Leon Ichaso and written by Barry Michael Cooper. It stars Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright as brothers Roemello and Raynathan Skuggs. Considered the second film of Cooper's "Harlem Trilogy", it focuses on the two brothers who are major drug dealers in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, specifically the namesake Sugar Hill. Plot 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, the non-fatal shooting of their drug-addicted musician father, Arthur Romello "A.R." Skuggs (ultimately at the hands of the man they would later work for—Gus Molino), and a scene where Roemello is offered a full scholarship to Georgetown. Roemello as a teenager avenges his father's shooting by shooting and killing Sal Marconi, Gus's cousin. After contemplating for a while, Roemello decides to quit dealing and start a new life with his girlfriend, Melissa, 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 at the hands of an up-and-coming Brooklyn drug dealer and former boxing champion, Lolly Jonas. 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.