A geek (newcomer Shameik Moore) from a tough neighbourhood in Los Angeles tries to find his place in academia in...
A geek (newcomer Shameik Moore) from a tough neighbourhood in Los Angeles tries to find his place in academia in this coming-of-age tale. However, one night at an underground party sends him in a wildly different direction - one that will make him the dopest dude around. Co-stars The Grand Budapest Hotel's Tony Revolori, Zoë Kravitz and rapper A$AP Rocky.
"Malcolm is a high school geek with a high-top fade, carefully navigating life in The Bottoms, one of the toughest neighborhoods in Inglewood, California. He and his fellow outcasts share a voracious appreciation for all things '90s hip-hop, opting to sport Cross-Colours and Z. Cavariccis at the risk of being clowned at school. He dreams of attending Harvard, but first he has to make it home every day. When a drug dealer takes a shine to Malcolm and invites him to his birthday party, Malcolm’s crew is swirled into a hilarious blender of offbeat characters and bad choices where redemption can only be found in Bitcoin." (Sundance Film Festival)
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88 %161 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
83 %34,120 reviewsAudience score rating
"Move over Ferris Bueller, high school has a new king and the high school movie genre has a new heavyweight. Meet Malcolm and his two friends. Three self-professed high school geeks with an obsession for ‘90s hip hop who are weeks from graduating having navigated the complex dilemmas of life in a modern high school world and urban gang war landscape."
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Flicks
Flicks"The fun momentum of Dope’s breakneck plotting and snappy dialogue easily overcome any momentary attack of earnestness."
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Variety
Variety"Famuyiwa ... doubles down on an applying-to-Harvard satire that both upends demographic expectations while insisting (at times a bit strenuously) that we all aim a little higher."
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Time Out
Time Out"Shoves disparate genre elements together as if pulling jigsaw puzzle pieces from a half-dozen different boxes, and if the finished work isn't quite convincing, it's still fun to look at."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It's about kids who we're generally not asked to care about: a cast almost entirely made up of actors of colour."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"In the end, just another unfunny grab bag of stereotypes. Don't believe the hype."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"A crowd-pleaser from start to finish."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterDope | Details
Award winner- Best Editing winner at Sundance Film Festival 2015
- Rating
- MA15+, Strong coarse language, sexual references and drug references
- Runtime
- 103
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
