into pulling some strings at Harvard is no different than, say, a rich White kid whose father and grandfather went to Yale using their influence to get in despite not having the grades for it. Malcolm ends up being pressured into helping drug dealer Dom (A$AP Rocky) get the attention of Kravitz’s character, Nakia. Set in inner-city Los Angeles and written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, Dope is a neat, little coming-of-age fairy tale set in the middle of an urban fable. There’s a dollop of Hype Williams’ “Belly,” the Hudlins’ “House Party” and “Boyz N The Hood” among others. “Slippery slope” is the recurring leitmotif of the film, explaining how one bad decision can lead to multiple, unforeseen bad situations. Nakia accepts Dom’s messenger’s request to go to a party, but the messenger’s interest in Nakia could get him shot in the process. Some of that irritation had to do with the film’s decision to climb upon a soapbox in its last scenes. Set in inner-city Los Angeles and written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, Dope is a neat, little coming-of-age fairy tale set in the middle of an urban fable. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drug dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. Malcolm is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled with gangsters and drug dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT. They live in "The Bottoms" part of Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. And that’s OK. It’s wonderfully its own thing, similar to previous friend-based Famuyiwa outings like Brown Sugar and The Wood. Usually, these films open with a definition of satire, which they don’t live up to by the closing credits. A narrator (producer Forrest Whitaker) introduces us to Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his friends Jib (Tony Revolori from “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons). It stars Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, Lakeith Stanfield, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz, and ASAP Rocky. It’s also not Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s Friday. Parents Guide. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into an "only in Los Angeles" gritty adventure filled with offbeat characters and bad choices. He can’t say it (Diggy slaps him after every attempt), but everyone else utters it about 200 times. | Plot Keywords Malcolm, now shorn of his fade for a more “respectable” hairdo, asks in voiceover “Why do I want to go to Harvard? The plot of Dope is fairly simple, but with some new twists to keep you going. Jib and Diggy are along for the ride, and they’re more than capable sidekicks. In its lighthearted premise—a nerdy, sweet boy who loves ’90s hip-hop, high-top fades, skateboards, punk rock and cassette tapes—lies a dark world where even if you’re a goofy nerd, if you are black or brown, you, too, can get caught up via gangs, drugs, stereotypes, crappy public schools, poverty and gunplay. Dope is a good movie. But what about all the other kids who don’t fit the prototypical thug mode, that silent majority of goofy kids, loners, nerds, outsiders, geeks and weirdos, who don’t fit in anywhere and seek solace in nostalgia or sci-fi? It starts innocently enough, with the local drug dealer Dom (A$ap Rocky, very good here) telling Malcolm to pitch woo on his behalf to Nakia (Zoe Kravitz, doing a flawless imitation of her mother, Lisa Bonet). “Dope” played the same Sundance Festival that honored the repulsive “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” and while it is nowhere near as egregious in its depiction of African-Americans, “Dope” still left me feeling agitated about what I’d just seen. The combination feels like the Geto Boys rapping over “Brahm’s Lullaby,” and Smith milks every last syllable of his dialogue. People are gorily shot, and there’s one jaw-dropping, unfunny shot of a blood-spattered GameBoy that’s played for laughs. “Dope” alternates between satirizing these films, fetishizing them, paying homage to them, and ripping them off. En route, they meet a slew of people “Dope” amusingly mocks, from the type of brother who always winds up giving witness testimony on the news to the White hacker who whines about not being able to use the N-word. Despite initial reluctance, Jib and Diggy convince Malcolm to go and the trio arrives. He runs the blogs Big Media Vandalism and Tales of Odienary Madness. During the party, Dom and his crew meet in a back room to buy high-grade, powdered molly but are interrupted by an armed gang, and several people are shot. It co-exists in the same world where he wants to go to Harvard, lives with his single-parent mom (Kimberly Elise), crushes on the elusive pretty girl (Zoë Kravitz) and plays in his punk rock band, Oreo, with his best friends Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) and Jib (Tony Revolori). Even if it’s too cute to be cool, we need to get high. Dope is a 2015 American comedy-drama coming-of-age film written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa and produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi. Sell this dope or die. Malcolm attends the party to make time with Nakia, but the party’s a front for a drug deal that, of course, goes awry. On one hand, Malcolm’s “Super Fly”-inspired plan to force A.J. Your options are fight or flee with an added option of “or die” on the streets of Dope. What happens next all revolves around Malcolm and his friends’ desperation to get rid of the dope by any means necessary so they can return to just being goofy kids with collegiate dreams. For jocks. And it ties up so neatly—despite all of its early wit and menace—that it almost turns into a sunny after-school special. “Dope” opts instead for Webster’s take on its title, defining it as slang for a stupid person, drugs and something that’s cool. Malcolm's ultimate dream is to go to Harvard but in a meeting with his counselor Mr. Bailey, Bailey calls Malcolm's desire to attend Harvard an arrogant one, and says that his straight A's don't mean a thing. Big? Being “different,” as main character Malcolm (Shameik Moore) sees himself, just makes you more of a target.

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