Dope - Trailer

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Malcolm Adecombi is not having such a good time in high school. He's constantly bullied for being a geek, as are his best friends Diggy and Jib. But things aren't about to get any easier as he approaches college. He's determined to get the best grades possible and hopefully go to Harvard, but a sexual awakening, a desire to be seen as cool and his love of music might just get in the way. Living in the tough suburb of The Bottoms in Inglewood, California, there's a lot of underground gang and drug crime happening, nonetheless when he is invited to a secret party he is determined to go and prove himself. As bad luck would have it, hitting up an illegal gathering can only see his life go from bad to worse, and when he inadvertently gets caught up in some serious trouble, he has to do some hard thinking to get himself out.

'Dope' is the forthcoming crime comedy directed and written by Rick Famuyiwa ('Our Family Wedding', 'Talk to Me', 'Brown Sugar', 'The Wood'). It has been co-produced by narrator Forest Whitaker, won the Editing Award at Sundance, and was nominated for a string of awards at other film festivals like Seattle, Edinburgh and Cannes. The movie will hit UK theatres on September 4th 2015.