White Boy Rick
It worked for Matthew McConaughey once, so why not go back to the well?
In “Dallas Buyer’s Club,” he played a real life character (an AIDS victim working to get medication to fellow patients who could not otherwise get it), and won an Oscar.
With “White Boy Rick,” he plays a completely different kind of person, but maybe just as fascinating. Ricky Wershe Jr., in 1980s Detroit, was a street hustler, drug kingpin, and FBI Informant-all before the age of 16! Later, it all went sound and he ended up in prison.
Here’s the official synopsis and trailer:
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.
