Comment on Sensation of 'Dope' continues at Cannes Film Festival

Sensation of 'Dope' continues at Cannes Film Festival [...] he's sitting in a restaurant at Cannes riding the sensation of "Dope," his comic Los Angeles coming-of-age tale that sparked a bidding war this year at the Sundance Film Festival. "Dope" premiered Friday in the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight section with most of its young cast enthusiastically in tow. "Dope" is a buoyant, stereotype-busting high-school movie about a geek (Moore) in Inglewood, California, who's aiming to get into Harvard but is thrust into a rollicking adventure when drug dealers looking for a hiding place stuff his backpack full of Ecstasy. Open Road isn't giving it the small, platform release most films out of Sundance aspire to, but a wide summer opening June 12 opposite "Jurassic World."