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  • 1999
  • R
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

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 ra...

Directed By: Marc Levin

Written By: Garth Belcon, Danny Hoch, Richard Stratton, Marc Levin

  • 1999
  • R
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 1999
  • R
  • Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • 1 h 32 m

Whiteboyz

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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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 ra...

Directed By: Marc Levin

Written By: Garth Belcon, Danny Hoch, Richard Stratton, Marc Levin

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
45
22% Positive
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
11% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
45
22% Positive
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
11% Negative
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70
Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent.
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70
Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
Dopey, not dope.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
50
Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears.
By Jonathan Foreman FULL REVIEW
40
Documents accurately the capacity of pop culture to make mongrels of its consumers. But it doesn't quite know (or want to know) what to make of it.
By Gene Seymour FULL REVIEW
40
Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously.
By Jessica Winter FULL REVIEW
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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Production Company Bac Films, Canal+, Off Line Entertainment Group, Searchlight Pictures
Release Date Oct 8, 1999
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.
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Awards

Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Paris Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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