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Whiteboys
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Garth Belcon
Danny Hoch
Mark Levin
Richard Stratton
Directed by: Marc Levin
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 8, 1999
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / France
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive language, substance abuse, some violence and sexuality
Starring Danny Hoch, Dash Mihok, Mark Webber, Piper Perabo, Eugene Byrd, and Bonz Malone
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)
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What The Critics Said
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New York Daily News Robert Dominguez
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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jessica Winter
Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Cullum
Can never quite decide whether it's after the humor implicit in what seems conceived as satire, or the agitprop frissons of race and class theory.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
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.
Read Full Review >Variety Lisa Nesselson
Too many scenes play like actors acting rather than life being lived as pic lurches around with ragged variations in tone.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Steini E. gave it a9:
This movie is one of the most underrated movie of all times. Acting, script and photography is topnotch! Danny Hoch is a genius.
Stoney M. gave it a10:
quality film i found it so funny it was unbelievable. best time to watch is when ur stoned.
spongeee gave it a10:
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.
andrea c. gave it a10:
How can I contact Eric Rivas. Actor in Mob sequence was so cute. Anyway story is funny. danny Hoch is Uglay but smart. I wish this would be out in the theaters again!!!! Snoop Dogg is funnY!
Andrew O. gave it a 10:
Some funny s..t.
Casey H. gave it a 10:
Whiteboyz was the best movie I have just about ever seen. It's good because it teaches people, to remember that they are themselves not someone else and the effects of not being yourself and not some gangsta rapper. It's ok to like the people but you cannot be them. Thanks p.s the music in the film rules. seeya
