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?
Whiteboyz has generally received mixed reviews.
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Whiteboyz was released in 1999 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 21 reviews, giving Whiteboyz (1999) an average rating of 54%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 74%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 49%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Whiteboyz than critics were.
With a score of 54%, Whiteboyz is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like Summer of Sam, Stigmata and Pushing Tin.
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