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  1. White Boy Rick is a 2018 American crime drama film directed by Yann Demange and written by Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, and Noah Miller. The film stars Matthew McConaughey , Richie Merritt in his film debut, Bel Powley , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Brian Tyree Henry , Rory Cochrane , RJ Cyler , Jonathan Majors , Eddie Marsan , Bruce Dern , and Piper ...

    • Richie Merritt

      Richie Merritt [1] (born 2001) [2] is an American actor. He...

    • Bel Powley

      Isobel Dorothy Powley (born 7 March 1992) is an English...

    • White Boy (film)

      White Boy is a 2017 true crime documentary directed by Shawn...

  2. White Boy, a documentary chronicling the case of Richard Wershe Jr., premiered on March 31, 2017, at the Freep Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice Award. It began airing on the Starz network in 2019 and was picked up by Netflix in April 2021.

  3. 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 ...

  4. With Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh. The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Yann Demange
    • 2018-09-14
  5. Rick Wershe is a single father who's struggling to raise two teenagers during the height of the crack epidemic in 1980s Detroit. Wershe sells guns illegally to make ends meet but soon attracts ...

    • (158)
    • Yann Demange
    • R
    • Matthew Mcconaughey
  6. Sep 14, 2018 · The Argentine thriller “El Angel” follows a teenage serial killer, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is about a writer-turned-forger, and “White Boy Rick” dramatizes the saga of a teenager sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.

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  8. Oct 15, 2024 · Richard Wershe Jr. was released from prison on July 20, 2020, a fact that wasn't revealed in the end credits of White Boy Rick, as the film came out two years earlier in 2018. Ricky is now an activist for non-violent offenders serving time for drug-related charges (via SlashFilm).

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