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DVD

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White Boy Rick

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

Languages

In English or French, with optional English or French subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English audio description track.

Performers

Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie.

Publication Information

Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R; language throughout, drug content, violence, some sexual references, and brief nudity.

Summary

Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the war on drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.

Notes

Title from container.

DVD release of the 2018 motion picture.

Special features: Deleted scenes ; making-of ; The unknown true story of Rick Wershe Jr. ; The three tribes of Detroit: the cast.

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