but not “Dope.” It’s a movie about a geeky teenager living in a Los Angeles ’hood, and something about it, or rather everything about it, feels real. The first smart thing that writer ...

That is the underlying question in Rick Famuyiwa's new movie, “Dope," which revolves around ... an unfettered desire to succeed and "leave the hood." But it uses modem storytelling, involving ...

You could say this vibrant US indie comedy-drama sits at a mythical point where Boyz N the Hood meets Risky Business ... a scene from the movie Dope. Picture: Sony Pictures.

Onscreen, the African-American experience is almost always limited to either depictions of the hood or of the upper middle class. The crackling comedy "Dope" is technically a film about the former ...