Sugar Hill is a 1994 American crime drama film directed by Leon Ichaso and written by Barry Michael Cooper.
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.
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.
The Skuggs brothers and their associates find Ricky's burned body hanging from the side of a neighborhood apartment building.
[3] Todd McCarthy of Variety called it "a self-indulgent drama" that plays like a dreary variation on New Jack City",[4] Cooper's first film.
[5] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "sinks under the weight of excessive violence and a welter of overwrought plot contrivances".
[6] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C− and wrote, "Though the movie itself isn’t much — a dawdling inner-city pastiche of Mean Streets and the Godfather films — a couple of the performers do succeed in fleshing out their threadbare roles.