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White Boy, a documentary chronicling the case of Richard Wershe Jr., premiered on March 31, 2017, at the Freep Film Festival where it won the Audience Choice Award. It began airing on the Starz network in 2019 and was picked up by Netflix in April 2021. White Boy Rick, a film based on his life, was released on September 14, 2018. [3] [16]
White Boy Rick is a 2018 American crime drama film directed by Yann Demange and written by Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, and Noah Miller. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt in his film debut, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern, and Piper Laurie in her final film role.
White Boy is a 2017 true crime documentary directed by Shawn Rech, written by Brandon Kimber, Seth Ferranti and Scott Burnstein, and produced by Transition Studios.. The documentary follows the story of Richard Wershe Jr., aka “White Boy Rick,” an FBI informant and alleged cocaine kingpin in Detroit in the 1980s, who was sentenced to life in prison.
Two lawsuits filed by a Detroit-area man whose decades in prison for drug dealing and work as an informant inspired the movie “White Boy Rick” have been dismissed by a federal judge who found ...
At the age of 17, Rick Wershe Jr. was sentenced to prison for cocaine possession after having been used by the FBI as an informant since he was a boy of 14. Known as White Boy Rick, Wershe, now 52 ...
Rick Ross holds many titles — rapper, author, record executive, entrepreneur, car connoisseur and The Boss, to name a few — but he may be proudest of all to be called dad. The Grammy-nominated ...
Richie Merritt [1] (born 2001) [2] is an American actor. He portrayed Richard Wershe Jr. in the 2018 film White Boy Rick. [3] [4] [5] [6] He also played Malachi in ...
White Boy Rick — whose drug dealing days and work as an FBI informant in Detroit as a young teen inspired a motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey — was arrested in Miami Tuesday on ...