‘Rob Peace’ Review: An Ivy League Drug Dealer Leads a Dark Survival Story

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Rob Peace
"Rob Peace" (Courtesy of Sundance)

“Ivy League Drug Dealer” are probably the words those who didn’t know Rob Peace used to describe him when he was killed in 2011. Those who read his friend and college roommate Jeff Hobbs’ 2014 bestselling book “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League” about his life knew probably changed their minds afterwards.

And now with the film “Rob Peace,” directed and adapted by Chiwetel Ejiofor, — who was nominated for an Oscar for “12 Years A Slave” the year the book was published — hopefully even more people will see not just Rob Peace, but all he was up against that contributed to his murder.

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    Rob’s Ex

    “Rob Peace” IS a story of an ivy league drug dealer. He was brilliant and got a scholarship to Yale. He made that happen. Just as he himself chose to deal drugs, steal equipment from Yale to make drugs, eventually making a new strain of marijuana. He chose to transport drugs, something not mentioned in the movie. He chose to stay in his childhood community. Bad things didn’t “just happen” to Rob, it’s his own choices that put him in the predicament he was in. There’s no white man or white ivy league or community that made him do anything. He is the one to blame. No one else. I personally knew him. He wasn’t that great of a person.

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