Release dates
December 25, 2018
78 months agoVOD / Blu-ray / DVD
Released
White Boy Rick release date
The movie White Boy Rick is already released on Cinema, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 18 reviews, White Boy Rick gets an average review score of 63
There is an affecting scene in the film “White Boy Rick” in which the title character and his dad carry Rick’s sister, Dawn, out of a Detroit home filled with junkies. The girl is pencil-thin and high as a kite as she kicks and screams, refusing to leave the grimy den.
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Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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Matthew McConaughey and newcomer Richie Merritt give a seedy tour of the '80s drug underworld in White Boy Rick
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It’s about family, love, and redemption. Loyalty only goes so far on the streets when rumors could mean death so we can’t necessarily blame Curry for actions taken with security in mind.
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A well-acted but hurried true crime tale.
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Travails of young drug dealer really a story about family ties
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White Boy Rick struggles to find singular drama in an all-too-common story
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When it comes down to it “White Boy Rick” wants to make the argument that the federal government (i.e., the FBI) put our hero on a road that made him a drug dealer at the ridiculously young age of 14.
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Crime drama ‘White Boy Rick’ is half-depressing, half-entertaining — and all true
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Tale of Rick Wershe Jr., who went from underage drug kingpin to FBI plant to prisoner, tells his story with little big-pic takeaways
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Though it's a well-done family drama, “White Boy Rick” is a half-told story that only lightly incorporates the deeper issues of systemic injustice.
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Scuzzy and surprisingly unsympathetic, this true story of a 14-year-old recruited by authorities never quite makes the case for its drug-dealing subject’s innocence.
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'White Boy Rick' deals in good acting but falls flat with true crime story
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The emotional crux of the movie is the relationship between the inept father and his hapless children.
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Yann Demange’s new film tells the true story of Rick Wershe Jr., a mid-’80s Detroit teenager who went from gun dealer to informant to drug dealer to inmate.
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Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey and newcomer Richie Merritt play a father and son who find themselves ensnared in the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s.
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Squint and you can sometimes make out the bigger, more complex stories in White Boy Rick, including those of a great city violently brought low; of fragile communities left to fail and rot; and of a legal system that seems permanently broken. Too often, though, the movie traffics in genre clichés and the usual suspects.
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By treating its main character as exceptional, the film validates the punitive system it seeks to criticize.
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