Solid work from the cast - particularly a scene-stealing Matthew McConaughey - helps White Boy Rick make up for a number of missed opportunities in the script. Read critic reviews
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White Boy Rick: Official Clip - Rick Gets Shot
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - You A Granddaddy
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - Turning Snitch
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - You Took A Life!
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - The Diner
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - Personality Crash
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - Not Saying Nothing
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - Rick Gets Arrested
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - We Are Lions!
White Boy Rick: Official Clip - We're Going for Custard
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Rick Wershe is a single father who's struggling to raise two teenagers during the height of the crack epidemic in 1980s Detroit. Wershe sells guns illegally to make ends meet but soon attracts attention from the FBI. Federal agents convince his son, Rick Jr., to become an undercover drug informant in exchange for keeping his father out of prison. When young Rick gets in too deep, he finds himself seduced by the lure of easy money and becomes a drug dealer himself.
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Rating: R (Drug Content|Brief Nudity|Language Throughout|Some Sexual References|Violence)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
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Original Language: English
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Director: Yann Demange
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Producer: John Lesher, Julie Yorn, Scott Franklin, Darren Aronofsky
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Writer: Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, Noah Miller
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $24.0M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Production Co: Studio 8
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Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)
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Worth a view for its solid acting and super cinematography, White Boy Rick, lacks the storytelling chops to be memorable.
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Forgettable. I guess I theoretically could feel sorry for the actual person this movie was based around? Maybe? But not for this character. Nothing about White Boy Rick grabbed me, least of all the utterly never-congenial Matthew McConaughey, who I seem unable to escape recently, desperate though I am to do so.
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"You clean up well, Ricky, but you crooked." White Boy Rick is the kind of story that sounds crazier in its broad strokes than it feels when your in the midst of the motions, not realizing what your in the midst of. Director Yann Demange ('71) boils the "based on a true story" events down into a movie about the fragility of family and the relationships in our lives-namely that of the father/son relationship here. It also doesn't hurt that Demange and his team have fully re-created the look and feel of what one imagines mid-80's Detroit looked and felt like for the lower/middle class. I mean, everything in every frame is on point. One of the best soundtracks of the year, undeniably. A host of great showings from the likes of McConaughey, Jonathan Majors, and newcomer Richie Merritt, but ladies and gentleman I needed more of Eddie Marsan in this role! There's a lot of talk of "up selliing" in White Boy Rick, but the magic of what Demange pulls off here is that he executes his story in such a fashion, by dialing in on the familial theme rather than focusing on how "crazy" it all is, that he doesn't have to offer any fries with the burger to convince us we're getting more than we bargained for. We get exactly what we ordered without the typical gimmicks only to find a pie we didn't have to pay for in the bag after the fact.
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A potentially good to great movie is in there somewhere, somewhat lost in uneven direction, bad pacing and a lack of focus. Matthew Mcconaughey seems underutilized, but nonetheless excels. 3.5/5
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