Whiteboyz

Whiteboyz(1999)

R
09/10/1999 (US)Comedy, Drama, Music1h 32m
5.2

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

Overview

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?

Marc Levin

Director

Garth Belcon

Story

Danny Hoch

Story

Garth Belcon

Screenplay

Danny Hoch

Screenplay

Marc Levin

Screenplay

Richard Stratton

Screenplay