The Wood (1999)
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
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Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa (“Brown Sugar,” “The Wood”) effectively presents Malcolm looking to use his brain to get out of the violent, low-income area of Inglewood, Calif., known as “The Bottoms,” not wanting to write a clichéd college essay about his bad neighborhood and single mom, and instead speculating about the good day that inspired Ice Cube.
Famuyiwa, best known for The Wood and Brown Sugar, has crafted a brilliant homage to the ’90s aesthetic throughout the film.
Dope almost acts as a spiritual prequel to writer/director Famuyiwa's 1999 cult classic The Wood, as this film trades nostalgia of one's past for the nostalgia of past culture.
Nigerian-American writer-director Rick Famuyiwa (“The Wood,” “Brown Sugar”) is particularly indebted to “Risky Business” (1983).
That mix risks silliness at times, but there’s so much playful energy and wit to Rick Famuyiwa ’s indie-est project since “The Wood” (1999) that few viewers will mind.
Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa (“The Wood”) has crafted quite a conundrum in “Dope,” a shooting star of a film that comes dangerously close to succumbing its own scatterbrained screenplay.