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Title: Whiteboyz (1999)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Danny Hoch | ... | Flip | |
| Dash Mihok | ... | James | |
| Mark Webber | ... | Trevor | |
| Piper Perabo | ... | Sara | |
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Terence Mueller | ... | Jock |
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Lyndsey Barnett | ... | Girl in Bathroom |
| Dr. Dre | ... | Don Flip Crew #1 | |
| Fat Joe | ... | Don Flip Crew #2 | |
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Eric Rivas Quiroga | ... | Traitor |
| Eugene Byrd | ... | Khalid | |
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Rich Komenich | ... | Flip's Dad |
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William N. Mayberry | ... | Foreman |
| Lisa Jane Todd | ... | Trevor's Mom | |
| Annabel Armour | ... | Flip's Mom | |
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Shannon Penrod | ... | Hucky's Customer |
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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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i can understand why the makers of this film would want to exaggerate the situation, but i didn't think it need to be set in Iowa. as previous users have mentioned, Iowa is not drug- and black-free, but its image is of wholesome, all-white nostalgia. i didn't really buy Danny Hoch's Flip as an Iowa native, he still sounds too Brooklyn. i think it would have been better if it taken place in Jersey, but i understand the director's desire to show just how far Flip stretches.
That said, i think it's a brilliant, if flawed, movie. it spends a bit too much time watching Flip do his misguided thing, before getting to the climax in Cabrini-Green. Hoch is great at affecting that 'what the hell is going on?' look, and tho this may sound weird, he doesn't overplay the character, except when he's in full blown hip hop mode. other than that his character is completely believable. he nails that character so well, the guy we've all known who has some idea in his head so large he can't hear anything else. Until he takes it too far.