Whiteboyz
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45 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: A funny and searing look at America's youth struggling to find their place amidst a sea of designer labels in an image-driven society. Flip (Hoch) is the hip hop poet of his own white boy crew. The son of a working class Iowa family, Flip just wants "to keep it real" by moving into the Chicago ghetto to live and write million-dollar rap hits like his heroes. (Fox Searchlight)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    50
    Despite its good intentions, Whiteboys -- a serio-comic examination of hip-hop's influence on suburban white youth -- comes off as little more than a fleshed-out skit.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Lisa Nesselson
    30
    Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. StoneyM.
    10
    quality film i found it so funny it was unbelievable. best time to watch is when ur stoned.
  2. spongeee
    10
    If you don't see the dual nature comedy or the ultimate point/meaning of this movie, then you just don't think like some of us. It's over the top, it's laugh out loud funny, and it is as smart as Bamboolzed (which was a classic). The script is perfect, its three different lives, in one city, and how they interpret and live "Hip Hop," better yet how they view black culture as a whole. The acting was great and made the script come to life. There is not a dull moment because the story movies forward until its climax and then brings you back down but does it so effortlessly. And pay attention to the last lines of the movie. That sums up the motivation of the white boyz in this movie. and maybe some of the white boyz out there really "acting" like this.… Expand
  3. SteiniE.
    9
    This movie is one of the most underrated movie of all times. Acting, script and photography is topnotch! Danny Hoch is a genius.

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