Whiteboyz
“They dreamed of the ghetto...But they woke up in Iowa.”
In a virtually all-white Iowa town, Flip daydreams of being a hip-hop star, hanging with Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre. He practices in front of a mirror and with his two pals, James and Trevor. He talks Black slang, he dresses Black. He's also a wannabe pusher, selling flour as cocaine. And while he talks about "keeping it real," he hardly notices real life around him: his father's been laid off, his mother uses Food Stamps, his girlfriend is pregnant, James may be psychotic, one of his friends (one of the town's few Black kids) is preparing for college, and, on a trip to Chicago to try to buy drugs, the cops shoot real bullets. What will it take for Flip to get real?
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Cast
14 people
Danny Hoch
Flip
Known for
Maniac
Black Hawk Down
Piper Perabo
Sara
Known for
The Prestige
Coyote Ugly
Dr. Dre
Don Flip Crew #1
Known for
Training Day
The Wash
Fat Joe
Don Flip Crew #2
Known for
Happy Feet
Night School
Eugene Byrd
Khalid
Known for
Bones
8 Mile
Dash Mihok
James
Known for
I Am Legend
Ray Donovan
Mark Webber
Trevor
Known for
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
13 Sins
William N. Mayberry
Foreman
No other roles listed
Eric Rivas Quiroga
Traitor
No other roles listed
Snoop Dogg
Self
Known for
Starsky & Hutch
Training Day
Lisa Jane Todd
Trevor's Mom
Known for
Blood Hook
Playback
Doug E. Fresh
Parking Lot Rapper #1
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Marc Levin Director · Danny Hoch Screenplay Richard Stratton Screenplay
Worldwide gross $39K · United States release September 10, 1999 · Produced in France, United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$38,738
Production
Bac Films
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Production
France · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 10, 1999
Theatrical
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