Whiteboyz

Name: Whiteboyz
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 8, 1999
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 45

1999

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: October 8, 1999 | R

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 rapA 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

Director: Marc Levin

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Anita Gates

Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways. Read full review

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

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

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

Jessica Winter

Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously. Read full review

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

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StoneyM.

Jul 25, 2006

quality film i found it so funny it was unbelievable. best time to watch is when ur stoned.

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spongeee

Sep 9, 2005

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 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

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SteiniE.

May 18, 2007

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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