‘Dope’
This witty coming-of-age tale is both hilarious and deep. The film follows high schooler Malcom (Shameik Moore) and his band of nerdy, 90s-hip-hop-obsessed friends who are trying to keep their noses clean in a rough LA-adjacent neighborhood in oder to get into college. That plan doesn’t exactly go smoothly when a backpack full of the club drug Molly accidentally falls into Malcom’s hands, and we witness how easy it can be for teens in bad areas to fall into an unfair stereotype.