White Boy Rick is an 2018 film. The movie stars Matthew McConaughey and Richie Merritt. The film is based on the real life events of the main character. Rick is still serving time in prison.
Based in 1980s Detroit, the Wershe family is getting by and Rick SR sells guns. Rick JR learns the trade and starts to sell to local gangsters. The feds recruit Rick to catch the local players in the gang that go up all the way to city hall. Rick is white and the gangsters are black. He stands out and given this name by the local press.
The movie was more like a docu-drama than a movie. Although there are scenes of emotion in the Wershe family, it not sustained. And eventually goes back to the Rick story of entering the drug trade. The story is that the feds used Rick to convict people, but didn't protect him. Rick was put in prison for 30 years.
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