
A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. 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. His dream is to attend Harvard. 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 choic... (Full plot summary below)
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A coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. 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. His dream is to attend Harvard. 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. If Malcolm can persevere, he'll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
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| Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMoore, who's done some TV work and is also a singer and dancer, emerges as a genuine movie star in "Dope." He's very good looking and has charisma to burn, and he controls the screen in every scene he's in. Which is practically every scene. |
| Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)Linda CookNo wonder 'Dope' was a favorite at Sundance. |
| EntertainmentTellStephen Silver"Dope" has so much going on, and accomplishes so many things, that it's practically a miracle. |
| Seattle TimesSoren AndersonMoore, who's done some TV work and is also a singer and dancer, emerges as a genuine movie star in "Dope." He's very good looking and has charisma to burn, and he controls the screen in every scene he's in. Which is practically every scene. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt’s a movie about a geeky teenager living in the Los Angeles hood, and something about it, or rather everything about it, feels real. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA rollicking roller coaster ride around the 'hood that's basically a hilarious cross between Kid and Play's House Party (1990) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlPart of what makes writer-director Rick Famuyiwa's Dope so fresh and joyous is that in many key ways it's not new at all. |
| GuardianBrian MoylanIt's about kids who we're generally not asked to care about: a cast almost entirely made up of actors of colour. |
| Fresno BeeRick BentleyThis is the first feature film role for Moore and he delivers a performance that is sweet, smart, naive and -- when needed -- tough. His performance comes across as strong as many veteran actors. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe tone of Dope is very interesting — funny, but rarely stupid-funny. |