Network/Films/Whiteboyz 1999
Whiteboyz
Quick Facts
DirectorMarc Levin
Runtime1h 32m · R
GenresComedy · Drama · Music
Release1999-09-10
Film

Whiteboyz

1999· R· 1h 32m· Comedy· Drama· Music

They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.

In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also a wannabe pusher, selling flour as cocaine. And while he talks about "keeping it real," he hardly notices real life around him: his father's been laid off, his mother uses Food Stamps, his girlfriend is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his friends (one of the town's few Black kids) is preparing for college, and, on a trip to Chicago to try to buy drugs, the cops shoot real bullets. What will it take for Flip to get real?

1999-09-10
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Key Crew
DirectorMarc Levin
ScreenplayDanny Hoch
Director of PhotographyMark Benjamin
Full cast & crew (13 cast · 12 crew)

Details

Released1999-09-10
Runtime1h 32m · R
StatusReleased
StudiosBac Films · Fox Searchlight Pictures
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesFrance · United States of America
Rating5.4/10 · 21 votes
Original languageen

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