“In 1980s Detroit, Ricky Wershe Jr. was a Street Hustler, FBI informant and Drug Kingpin all before he turned 16.” This is the tagline of the movie poster and the media campaign accompanying “White Boy Rick.” The film gives the impression this is the story of the rise and fall of a Detroit area drug kingpin in the 1980s. Not quite. The gangster sequences are formulaic and mild compared to what you would expect from a "kingpin" movie.
White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick
“In 1980s Detroit, Ricky Wershe Jr. was a Street Hustler, FBI informant and Drug Kingpin all before he turned 16.” This is the tagline of the movie poster and the media campaign accompanying “White Boy Rick.” The film gives the impression this is the story of the rise and fall of a Detroit area drug kingpin in the 1980s. Not quite. The gangster sequences are formulaic and mild compared to what you would expect from a "kingpin" movie.