The 2015 Sundance Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and one of the stand out films for Park City, Utah is the Rick Famuyiwa directed, film Dope.
Starring Zoe Kravitz (who just did a movie with KiD CuDi), Blake Anderson, Forest Whitaker, A$AP Rocky, Tyga, Casey Veggies, Vince Staples, Diddy and much more. Instead of solely focusing on the stereotypical hood life which many of these films seem to do, director Rick Famuyiwa is trying to show the struggles of a regular kid — instead of the typically poor rapper movie. Via IMDB:
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 gangsters and drugs 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 a, only in Los Angeles, gritty adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he’ll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
