The surreal true story of a 14-year-old impoverished boy who became the FBI’s youngest informant was not the main draw for director Yann Demange in adapting the story of White Boy Rick for the big screen but rather, it was the Detroit teen’s touching relationship with his father that became the driving force of the movie.
“It’s a story about family really, a single-parent family trying to survive against the odds in face of abject poverty,” Demange told EW.
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