Film

Whiteboyz

1999 · 1h 32m · Comedy · Drama · Music

They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.

IMDb

5.4

Rotten Tomatoes

13%

Metacritic

45

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?

Danny Hoch

Flip

Piper Perabo

Sara

Dr. Dre

Don Flip Crew #1

Fat Joe

Don Flip Crew #2

Eugene Byrd

Khalid

Dash Mihok

James

Mark Webber

Trevor

William N. Mayberry

Foreman

Eric Rivas Quiroga

Traitor

Snoop Dogg

Self

Lisa Jane Todd

Trevor's Mom

Doug E. Fresh

Parking Lot Rapper #1

Danny Trejo

Prisoner

• Marc LevinDirector · Screenplay
• Garth BelconScreenplay · Story
• Richard StrattonScreenplay
• Danny HochStory · Screenplay
• Henri M. KesslerProducer
• David PeipersExecutive Producer
• John SlossExecutive Producer
• Mark BenjaminDirector of Photography

Whiteboyz - trailer (1999)

Release date

September 10, 1999

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Music