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Trippin' (film)

Trippin'
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Directed by David Raynr
Produced by Marc Abraham
Caitlin Scanlon
Thomas Bliss
Written by Gary Hardwick
Starring
Music by Michel Colombier
Cinematography John B. Aronson
Edited by Earl Watson
Production
company
Distributed by Rogue Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1999 (1999-05-12)
Running time
94 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3 million
Box office $9,017,070

Trippin' is a 1999 comedy film starring Deon Richmond, Maia Campbell, Donald Faison, and Guy Torry. The film provided one of Anthony Anderson's earliest film roles. It was directed by David Raynr.

Greg (Deon Richmond) is nearing the end of his high school days as graduation slowly approaches. He is also anxiously awaiting prom and has the hopes of going with Cinny (Maia Campbell), the school's local beauty. Along with these wants, Greg is also an avid daydreamer and daydreams (trippin') over everything. Most of his "trips" are reversals of real world events, such as visualizing himself as a military commando when confronted by bullies, or as a super genius when in fact he struggles academically. Since he is about to graduate his mother and a teacher encourage him to apply for college. He finally realizes asking for help with the college applications is a great way for him to get in good with Cinny. So they slowly start a friendship but Greg wants it to blossom into a romance so he begins to lie about things. Things go smoothly and are believable until they fall apart one day. Afterward, Greg realizes he needs to stop daydreaming ("trippin'") and focus.

The movie was filmed on location in California in the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach in 1998. Narbonne High School in Harbor City was used for most of the film's school shots. Harbor City in Los Angeles was also a location used for filming as some of the film's scenes take place on the RMS Queen Mary. The title of the film, while it was in production, was G's Trippin that was later shortened to its current title before release.

Trippin' was poorly received by critics, and currently holds an 18% "rotten" rating on the review aggregated site Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews. The film made $2,527,909 its opening weekend and grossed a total of $9,017,070 during its theatrical run.


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