White Boy Rick
These days, the police informer flick ‘based on a true story’ is pretty much a genre in itself, and while this latest addition is decently acted, it’s overlong and struggles to say anything particularly new.
Newcomer Richie Merritt plays Rick Wershe Jr, an outwardly unassuming but streetwise white teenager who, back in the dangerous Detroit suburbs of 1984, somehow finds the guts to sell the guns illegally