Kid Rick (White Boy Rick) is a 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Ian Demange from a screenplay by Andy Weiss, Logan Miller, and Noah Miller. The film premiered in Bulgaria on March 1, 2019.
In 1980, Detroit is at the height of the crack epidemic and the war on drugs. Based on a true story, "Kid Rick" tells the story of an average working father, Richard (Matthew McConaughey) and his son Rick (Richie Merritt), who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, after which he was abandoned by his superiors and sentenced to life in prison.
