Includes bonus feature “Who is White Boy Rick?” where the cast and crew discuss how the film is based on the true story of Rick Wershe Jr, the youngest FBI informant in history. 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.