Hot New Trailer: Allow Us to Reintroduce Sundance Breakout 'Dope'
Regarded as one of the best (er, dopest) finds at January’s Sundance Film Festival, Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope has dropped its first full trailer, which you can watch above. The coming-of-age dramedy stars impressive newcomer Shameik Moore as an inner-city L.A. teen with a high-top fade, perfect SAT scores, and a deep love for '90s hip-hop who gets sucked into slinging illicit substances.
Tony Revolori, who held his own at the center of last year’s star-studded Wes Anderson joint The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zoe Kravitz (the Divergent and X-Men series) and carrot-topped Workaholics star Blake Anderson co-star. Famuyiwa is best known for writing and directing the underrated dram-rom-coms The Wood (1999) and Brown Sugar (2002).
Related: Why '90s Hip-Hop Homage 'Dope’ is a Big Deal at Sundance
Fans of another Sundance breakout, Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness (2008), which also featured old-school rap nostalgia and a drug-peddling high school protagonist, are going to want to be all over this one.
Dope opens June 19.
