Info
Year: | 2018 |
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Original Title: | White Boy Rick |
Length: | 111 minutes |
Genre: | Crime, Drama |
Studios: | Protozoa Pictures, Studio 8 |
Distributor: | Sony Pictures |
Age rating: | Suitable only for 15 years and over |
Release Dates
United Kingdom: December 07 2018
United States: September 14 2018
Ranking
Ranking: 111 out of 14,830 movies (up 16)
Plot
'White Boy Rick' is based on a true story, following Richard Wershe Jr, a teenager who became an informant for the FBI during 80's. The young man ended up being arrested for drug-trafficking and was subsequently sentenced to life in prison. The film dictates Wershe Jr's real story, the criminal is now actually forty seven years old, but was imprisoned when he was just seventeen years old. After ending his work with the FBI, Richard Worse Junior was found with six hundred and fifty grams of cocaine. The film is directed by Yann Demange ('Top Boy'), written by Miller brothers, Logan and Noah, ('Touching Home', 'Sweetwater') and stars by Matthew McConaughey ('Dallas Buyers Club'), Jennifer Jason Leigh ('The Hateful Eight'), Bruce Dern ('Nebraska'), Bel Powley ('A Royal Night Out') and Rory Cochrane ('Argo').