Whiteboyz (1999)
They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.
92 min
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?
- Release date
- September 9, 1999
- Country of origin
- United States, France
Trailer
Cast
- Danny Hoch as Flip
- Dash Mihok as James
- Mark Webber as Trevor
- Piper Perabo as Sara
- Terence Mueller as Jock
- Lyndsey Barnett as Girl in Bathroom
- Dr. Dre as Don Flip Crew #1
- Fat Joe as Don Flip Crew #2
- Eric Rivas Quiroga as Traitor
- Eugene Byrd as Khalid
Crew
- Marc Levin · Director
- Garth Belcon · Writer
- Danny Hoch · Writer
- Marc Levin · Writer
- Richard Stratton · Writer
- Henri M. Kessler · Producer
- Richard Stratton · Producer
- Ezra Swerdlow · Producer
- Mark Benjamin · Cinematographer
- Emir Lewis · Editor
- Kathleen Chopin · Casting director
- Sue Crystal · Casting director
- Karen Meisels · Casting director
- David Doernberg · Production designer