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They Don’t Make Comedies Like One of Them Days Anymore


But they should.

It’s not that the longtime roommates and besties seem like they’d be opposed to kicking back in the company of Mary Jane, but between Dreux’s anxiety over an upcoming job interview; Alyssa’s freeloading boyfriend, Keshawn (Joshua David Neal); and the nine hours they have to avoid eviction, the pair just don’t have the luxury of getting high. But the key location is the apartment complex, which may be run by a hard-ass landlord named Uche (Rizi Timane) with no patience for due process, and which may shed chunks of ceiling plaster whenever a door gets slammed, but which is home to a long-term community the movie treats with wry affection. When the place gets its inaugural white girl, Bethany, played with perky obliviousness by Maude Apatow, the residents gather to take in her sweet smile and reactive rescue dog with the resignation of people who are well aware that she represents the beginning of the end.

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