California Schemin'
California Schemin'

California Schemin'

6.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

9

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2026

Release Year

107 min

Runtime

Music
Comedy
Drama

Overview

After being ridiculed for their Scottish accents, two ambitious musicians reinvent themselves as American rappers and fool the British music industry into a lucrative record deal, only for their elaborate lie to unravel under the weight of instant fame.

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Keywords

rap music
hip-hop
biography
based on true story
hoax
1990s

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6.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

April 15, 2026

6
6/10

Based very loosely on a true story (or lie!), this tells the story of two Dundonian rappers - Gavin (Séamus McLean Ross) and Billy (Samuel Bottomley) - as they strive to escape the mundanity of their call-centre jobs and take their own earthy brand of street-poetry to an unreceptive music industry. …

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