“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.