White Boy (2017)

Directed by

Shawn Rech, Shawn Rech

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

12

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a young man who becomes an FBI informant and drug dealer in 1980s Detroit. It shows how he gets caught up in the criminal justice system and receives a life sentence.

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What happens

White Boy is a 2017 true crime documentary directed by Shawn Rech, written by Brandon Kimber, Seth Ferranti and Scott Burnstein, and produced by Transition Studios. The documentary follows the story of Richard Wershe Jr., aka "White Boy Rick", an FBI informant and alleged cocaine kingpin in Detroit in the 1980s, who was sentenced to life in prison. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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