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Watch Trailer To Director Rick Famuyiwa\u2019s Dope<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

January 20, 2015<\/p>\n

Source: EW<\/a><\/p>\n

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The trailer, via EW<\/a>, to director Rick Famuyiwa\u2019s Dope<\/strong>, has been posted online. The film will make its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Produced by Significant Productions\u2019 Forest Whitaker<\/strong> and Nina Yang Bongiovi<\/strong> (“Fruitvale Station”),\u00a0 the film is a coming of age comedy\/drama for the post hip hop generation. Malcolm (Shameik Moore<\/strong>) 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.<\/p>\n

Making appearances in the film are Tony Revolori<\/strong>, Kiersey Clemons<\/strong>,,\u00a0Kimberly Elise, Rick Fox, Zo\u00eb Kravitz, Keith Stanfield<\/strong>, along with rap stars A$AP Rocky<\/strong> and Tyga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Famuyiwa\u2019s previous films include “The Wood,” “Brown Sugar,” “Our Family Wedding”.<\/p>\n

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