Dope (2015)

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. Title : Dope Release Date : June 19, 2015 Runtime : 103 minutes MPAA :R Rating Genres : Drama, Comedy Production : Forest Whitaker's Significant Productions, Revolt Films, IamOTHER Entertainment Co. Production : United States of America Countries Director : Rick Famuyiwa Writers : Rick Famuyiwa Shameik Moore, Kiersey Clemons, Tony Revolori, Zoë Kravitz, Chanel Iman, Rick Fox, Rakim Mayers, Blake Anderson, Quincy Brown, Forest Whitaker, Keith Stanfield, Kimberly Elise, Roger Casts : Guenveur Smith, Mimi Michaels, Lidia Porto, Michael Flores, Amin Joseph, Ashton Moio, De'Aundre Bonds, Tyga Plot : california, harvard university, geek, hip hop Keywords Alternative  Dope: Um Deslize Perigoso - [BR] : Titles

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Optimism in a hopeless place by Steve Pulaski on 19 June 2015 37 out of 54 people found the following review useful: Rick Famuyiwa's "Dope" opens by providing its titular term with three distinct definitions - to paraphrase, the word can mean an illegal drug, a stupid person, or an affirmation of something's greatness. For the next one-hundred and ten minutes, the film works to illustrate all of those features in some way or another through a lens that's unique, refreshing, and respectful to its characters and their cultures. Our main character is Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a black teenager carefully surviving in his crime/drugridden neighborhood of Inglewood, California, Despite being influenced by modern forces like the internet and Bitcoin, he loves nineties hip-hop and the culture of yesteryear, and so do his two closest friends, Jib ("The Grand Budapest Hotel"'s Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), who play in his punk band. Malcolm is going for what seems to be the impossible, which is applying for Harvard and forging a successful career path post-high school. However, in the mix of taking his SAT and writing his college entrance essay, Malcolm gets caught up in the underworld of illegal drugs and crime in the most unconventional way possible. After being invited to a party thrown by a drug dealer (rapper A$AP Rocky), Malcolm works to craft a name for himself by getting invested in the online drug-drealing world, using the help of a local hacker and Bitcoin to create a huge influx of revenue for him and his friends.