Synopsis
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
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Cast
- Robert Downey Jr.Terry Donager
- Scott CaanScotty
- Stacy EdwardsSheila King
- Allan HoustonDean Carter
- Gaby HoffmannRaven
- Jared LetoCasey
- Claudia SchifferGreta
- Brooke ShieldsSam Donager
- Joe PantolianoBill King
- Kidada JonesJesse
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
A pulsating snapshot of America caught in a mad, liberating identity crisis. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
The story is a mess, as usual with Toback's movies, but intricacies of contemporary urban culture are vividly illuminated by his insistence on blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. - 70
Slate
Gleefully pushes everyone's buttons...and that manages to exploit our own racial discomfort and envy in ways that leave us hungry for more. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Fascinating, perplexing, amusing, and irascible. - 60
The New York Times
It's another of Mr. Toback's quick-talking autobiographies that, like the best pop, have a clock running on their expiration dates. - 50
New York Daily News
There's something deeper at play in the film, something psychologically foul, voyeuristic and personal. - 50
New York Post
At heart a cliché-strewn melodrama about a bunch of white, upper-class Manhattan kids who aspire to ghetto culture. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Strident and bombastic.
