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Dope (2015 film)

2015 film by Rick Famuyiwa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dope is a 2015 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa and produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi. It stars Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Kimberly Elise, Chanel Iman, Tyga, Blake Anderson, Zoë Kravitz and ASAP Rocky in his film debut. The film was also executive produced by Pharrell Williams and co-executive produced by Sean Combs.

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“Dope (2015 film)” enters the record as 2015 film by Rick Famuyiwa. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dope, film and Rick can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dope, film and Rick.
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“Dope (2015 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dope, film and Rick provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dope (2015 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.