Watch Trailer To Director Rick Famuyiwa’s DopePosted by Wilson Morales
January 20, 2015
Source: EW
The trailer, via EW, to director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, has been posted online. The film will make its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Produced by Significant Productions’ Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi (“Fruitvale Station”), the film is a coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled gangsters and drugs 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 a, only in Los Angeles, gritty adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he’ll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Making appearances in the film are Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons,, Kimberly Elise, Rick Fox, Zoë Kravitz, Keith Stanfield, along with rap stars A$AP Rocky and Tyga.
Famuyiwa’s previous films include “The Wood,” “Brown Sugar,” “Our Family Wedding”.
