Rick Famuyiwa: Dope
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There're some contents in this movie that pay homage to the cinema of Spike Lee. The main characters are actually three guys who go to high school senior and that are described as geeks. They live in a neighborhood of Inglewood, California, called 'The Bottoms', where crime is frequent and you could easily get in trouble when you're not doing the right thing. One of them, Malcolm, wants to be admitted at Harvard University, and he has got qualities, but they seem not to be enough for a black man to go to that university. Involved unwillingly into a drug-traffic because of his inexperience, he needs at the same time to get out from this situation and to figure out about his admission at Harvard. Produced by Forest Whitaker and premiered at Sundance Film Festival.