Movies you need to watch before you see 'White Boy Rick' on the big screen

Movies throughout the decades have told us stories about fathers and sons, some were compelling while others were heartbreaking. Check out five movies as moving as 'White Boy Rick'
UPDATED SEP 14, 2018

Nate 'Boon' Craft (aka the Grim Reaper), the Detroit hitman who was hired to kill Richard Wershe Jr. aka White Boy Rick is now pleading for Wershe's release. So are the millions who are now aware of the 47-year-old man's full story as he serves time behind bars despite once being the youngest FBI informant due to his close association with former drug lord Johnny Curry. 

Wershe's story forms the central plot of the 2018 movie 'White Boy Rick', directed by Yann Demange, and written by Andy Weiss along with Logan and Noah Miller. While the movie focusses on Rick's journey from being the son of a gun dealer to becoming the youngest FBI informant at the age of 14, the film will tell the story from the perspective of the father-son relationship.

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