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Whiteboyz (1999)
Directed by Marc Levin
“They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.”
Comedy, Drama, Music · 1h 32m
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?
Cast
Piper Perabo
Dr. Dre
Fat Joe
Eugene Byrd
Dash Mihok
Mark Webber
Snoop Dogg
Lisa Jane Todd
Doug E. Fresh
Crew
- Director
- Marc Levin
- Screenplay
- Garth Belcon, Marc Levin, Richard Stratton, Danny Hoch
- Director of Photography
- Mark Benjamin
- Producer
- Henri M. Kessler
Details
- Release date
- 1999-09-10
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, United States of America
- Production
- Bac Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures