The summer movie season is here, and films from a wide range of genres will be hitting the box office soon. One of those movies, Dope, releases in theaters on June 19, the last day of school, and many students are eager to see the movie.

“I would definitely watch it as soon as it comes out,” senior Beza Yoseph said. “It seems like there’s finally a movie representing young African Americans in a normal light. Instead of them being maids or slaves or abused people/abusers, they’re high school students just like us.”

The film is centered around a high school geek named Malcolm, played by Shamiek Moore, with a passion for 90s hip hop. He is bothered at how his story seems “cliche,” raised by a single mother in a poor neighborhood with high ambitions. He has perfect grades, near perfect SAT scores and a close-knit group of friends.

Things become complicated when Malcolm catches feelings for a girl named Nakia (Zoe Kravitz). Malcolm decides to go to a birthday party being thrown by a drug dealer named Dom (A$AP Rocky), unaware that Dom is also seeing Nakia. Later, Malcolm accidentally leaves the party with Dom’s drugs. Being caught with drugs would ruin Malcolm’s Ivy League dream, so he and his friends have to get rid of the drugs as soon as possible, without getting into trouble with law enforcement or with Dom and his crew.

With a cast made up predominantly of young minorities living in Southern California, the movie comes across as a modern day version of coming of age movies such as Boyz N Tha Hood that were extremely popular during the 90s and early 00s.

There isn’t too much revealed by the trailer, but still just enough to keep the viewer interested in the movie. One thing that will be interesting to see is the amount of appearances made by musicians in the movie. The movie is set to feature artists such as A$AP Rocky, Tyga and Vince Staples. Overall, the movie seems like a potential box office hit.