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Whiteboyz

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France, United States · 1999
Rated R · 1h 32m
Director Marc Levin
Starring Danny Hoch, Piper Perabo, Dr. Dre, Fat Joe
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music

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?

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Variety by

Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.

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Los Angeles Times by Gene Seymour

Documents accurately the capacity of pop culture to make mongrels of its consumers. But it doesn't quite know (or want to know) what to make of it.

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