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Dope: Film

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Simon Sweetman
Oct 03, 2015
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Dope-Dope

Dope

Director: Rick Famuyiwa

Open Road Films Dope starts out by giving us the various definitions of the word, all slang – it’s a word for drugs, a name for an idiot, in the parlance of hip-hop it’s a form of credibility, a level of cool. And just like that multi-level definition the film Dope is about many things, and can be read many ways – most certain…

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