Synopsis
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
- Danny HochFlip
- Piper PeraboSara
- Dr. DreDon Flip Crew #1
- Fat JoeDon Flip Crew #2
- Eugene ByrdKhalid
- Dash MihokJames
- Mark WebberTrevor
- William N. MayberryForeman
- Eric Rivas QuirogaTraitor
- Snoop DoggSelf
Recommendations
- 70
TV Guide Magazine
Hoch's very funny satire on racial stereotyping cuts both ways. - 70
The New York Times
Deceptively silly, ultimately intelligent. - 50
New York Post
Without a real story to go with the notion of Farm Belt "wiggas," the humor wears thinner and thinner until it disappears. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Dopey, not dope. - 50
New York Daily News
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. - 40
Village Voice
Not a movie that can afford to take itself seriously. - 40
L.A. Weekly
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. - 40
Los Angeles Times
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.