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Dope

Cast

Shameik Moore, Kiersey Clemons, Tony Revolori, Zoë Kravitz View All


Crew

Rick Famuyiwa (Director), Rick Famuyiwa (Writer) View All

Release: Jun. 19th, 2015
Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes
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.
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0 DOPE
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2 42minus71's Cinematic Dope Out
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2 Supa' Wicked List'O Dope Movies
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6 "How about a dope break-dancing flick my homey?"
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Iroquois
The film starts off promisingly with a self-aware tone (complemented by Forest Whitaker as the matter-of-fact narrator whose intonations lend this potentially gritty film a vibe more becoming of your average Wes Anderson film) but as time wears on the film sinks deeper and deeper into being the kind....
ursaguy
Proper film structure would tell you that you should have side characters have small effects on plot for the duration of the movie, because it feels cheap when the main problem is fixed up by some guy who the audience doesn't even know exists until he saves the day.
Gideon58
Director and screenwriter Rick Famuyiwa has mounted an intelligent and winning story that is based on reality but the reality of Malcolm's predicament is only the blueprint for a truly unconventional cinematic trip that makes jarring and unexpected jumps from fantasy to reality and based them around....


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