Release date:September 14, 2018
(limited; wide: Sept. 21)
Studio:Sony Pictures
Director:Yann Demange
MPAA Rating:R (for language throughout, drug content, violence, some sexual references, and brief nudity)
Screenwriters:Logan Miller, Noah Miller, Andy Weiss, Scott Silver, Steve Kloves
Starring:Matthew McConaughey, Bel Powley, Bruce Dern, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rory Cochrane, Richie Merritt, Brian Tyree Henry, Ray Wershe, Piper Laurie, Bel Powley, Kyanna Simone Simpson
Genre:Drama
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, “White Boy Rick” is set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, and tells the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, who became an undercover informant and later a drug dealer, before he was dropped by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
