Dope Page #4

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
3,528 Views


without at least

f***in' your ass up.

You feel me?

You don't have to do that.

I kinda do though. I don't want

to. It's my birthday and sh*t.

But there's principles to this

sh*t, and I'm a principled man.

- They in, Dom. It's all good.

- I know they got in. That's my point.

But I got this nigga telling me what he

can't let me do and sh*t. Like I give a f***.

Man, if I let this sh*t slide, we

got what they call a slippery slope.

You know what

a slippery slope is, nigga?

No. I don't- I don't

know what a slippery-

Anyone?

Do it got anything

to do with skiing?

Nigga, sit your ass down, man.

I know using your brain

is a challenge and sh*t.

You use skis on a slope

- You might f*** around, give yourself a concussion.

It's a small event that leads to

a chain reaction of events...

with unintended consequences...

that were unforeseen at the time

of the inciting event.

See, this is a smart little

nigga right in here, bro.

You probably got one of them

"photogetic" brains or some sh*t, huh?

You mean photographic memory?

- Nigga, what I just say?

- I mean, yeah, y-you said it.

I'm reiterating that-

I'm still a little shaky

on the concept.

Basically, if I let

this nigga slide, man,

then I'm going to have

the next nigga coming along,

thinking they can pop off and

sh*t, you know what I'm sayin'?

And so on and so forth.

Damn!

- Oh, sh*t.

- Hey, little nigga, you coming in?

Yo, it's cool.

You coming in, Malcolm?

Nigga, come on.

Yeah.

Nigga, school's out. What the

f*** you doing with a bag on?

Hey, throw this behind the bar

for my little homey.

Yo, let me get a round of shots. Cheers.

Hi.

So, are you gonna ask me

to dance or what?

I think you said

something about me...

being man enough

to come talk to you.

Can I have this dance, Nakia?

It's my birthday, you know.

Hey, uh-

We were dancing, man.

Kids say the darndest things, don't they?

See, this is what happens when

you don't spank your children.

Anyways

- Why do you have to talk to him like that?

- You look nice tonight.

- Dom.

Boom!

Damn, nigga, that was ill.

This nigga doesn't know what

hit him. Check this nigga out.

He's walking his jihad dog

and sh*t, scratching his nuts.

Yahtzee, nigga.

Ooh, this sh*t crazy.

Yo, man, straight up, I really used

to think Obama was a b*tch, man.

Drones though, nigga?

That's some gangsta sh*t. I

need one of those motherfuckers.

This sh*t ain't funny.

It's f***ed up

if you really think about it.

How, nigga? He killing all

them Al-Qaedas and sh*t.

Nigga, that ain't all

that gets killed.

And that nigga's saying he

can drone-strike Americans too.

They killed an American working

with them niggas in Yemen.

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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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