Dope Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rick Famuyiwa
Production: Open Road Films
  6 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
R
Year:
2015
103 min
$11,674,449
Website
3,515 Views


Jacoby Check Cashing?

Harvard? Really?

I'm sorry. They don't all

go on to be president.

On this day,

their usual route home

is blocked by a Blood gathering.

They were shooting a video

for their YouTube channel.

Well, where do you want to go?

Some nigga really needs to invent an app

like Waze to avoid all these hood traps.

The only way to get home

is down 104th Street.

But that's where

the dope dealers are...

who, for sport, routinely

try to steal their bikes.

- Go!

- Hey, little nigga.

- Such is the life of a geek in The Bottoms.

- Come here.

A daily navigation between

bad and worse choices.

Come here, little nigga.

Yo, man.

I be seein' you and your little friends

with y'all flattops and MC Hammer pants,

riding around in this sh*t, looking like

y'all came out of a DeLorean or some sh*t.

You know, the '90s was like

the golden age of hip-hop.

Everything from

It Takes a Nation of Millions...

to The Blueprint

was killing it.

I guess me and my friends

just wish we grew up back then.

It Takes a Nation

came out in '88.

Blueprint came out 2001.

What the f*** are you

talkin' 'bout right now?

Technically, um-

But, you know, the spirit of the

music was definitely still '90s.

I mean, It Takes a Nation,

Straight Outta Compton...

Paid in Full

was ahead of their time.

And then you got

Snoop, Biggie, Wu-Tang.

They took the game

to the next level.

Blueprint was kind of like

the punctuation mark.

Let's not forget,

the '90s also gave us...

Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer...

and we can't forget

about the Fresh Prince.

Everything in the '90s wasn't great, but

- Oh, sh*t.

But you gotta admit

"Summertime" was a classic.

What's your name,

little nigga?

Uh, it's Malcolm.

Look here, Malcolm.

I want you to do a favor for me.

You see that green apartment

there in the middle of the block?

There's a nice little piece

over there.

I want you to go up to her and tell

her that Dom wants to talk to her.

Uh, th-that's- that's it?

Yeah, nigga.

Can you handle that?

Uh... y-yeah.

Get to pedalin', nigga.

Drop that up here.

Yeah.

You gonna say something

or just stare at me?

Um, Dom says...

that he would like you to

come over and talk to him.

Well, why don't you tell Dom

that if he wants to talk to me,

he can come over here

and be a f***ing man...

and not send a little kid

to talk for him?

Tell him just like that.

She said that sh*t?

And that Dominique was way

cooler before he became Dom.

And, um, that if you think that she cares

about your dope money, sh-she doesn't.

Listen, tell her that I'm throwing

a birthday party at Verse tonight...

and I would really enjoy

the pleasure of her company.

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Rick Famuyiwa

Rick Famuyiwa (born June 18, 1973) is a Nigerian-American director, producer and screenwriter of productions including The Wood (1999), Brown Sugar (2002), Talk to Me (2007), and Dope (2015). more…

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