Malibu's Most Wanted
Ever feel like you don't belong?
A lighthearted comedy about identity and belonging that uses mistaken personas and fish-out-of-water humor to explore a privileged kid's misguided self-reinvention.
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
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