Bel Powley stars as Dawn Wershe and Richie Merritt stars as her notorious brother Richard Wershe Jr. in Columbia Pictures’ and Studio 8’s WHITE BOY RICK.Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, White Boy Rick is based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Rory Cochrane, RJ Cyler. Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, With Bruce Dern and Piper Laurie.
Directed by Yann Demange, it arrives in cinemas on December 7th.
