White Girl (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Elizabeth Wood |
| Produced by | Gabriel Nussbaum |
| Written by | Elizabeth Wood |
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| Cinematography | Michael Simmonds |
| Edited by | Michael Taylor |
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| Distributed by | FilmRise and Netflix |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $700,000 |
| Box office | $200,242 |
White Girl is a 2016 American film written and directed by Elizabeth Wood in her directorial debut. It stars Morgan Saylor, Brian Marc, India Menuez, Adrian Martinez, Anthony Ramos, Ralph Rodriguez, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Chris Noth and Justin Bartha.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016. The film was released on September 2, 2016 by FilmRise.
Leah (Morgan Saylor), a young university student, moves in with her best friend Katie into an apartment in Ridgewood, Queens. One night, after they run out of pot she approaches a group of young Latino men on her corner asking them to sell her drugs. They refuse. Later she invites one of the men, Blue, into her apartment, who explains that while he's a coke dealer he refuses to do hard drugs. Blue and Leah end up having sex on her rooftop.
After seeing the drugs that Blue deals, Leah tells him he could easily be making sixty dollars compared to the twenty dollars he's been selling them for. She invites him to a party thrown by the magazine she's interning for and Blue is indeed able to mark up his prices to the mostly white crowd.
Emboldened by his success Blue visits his supplier Lloyd and asks him to give him a kilo of cocaine (another possible meaning for the title "White Girl"). Lloyd agrees and Blue and Leah go to a restaurant for breakfast. While there he is approached by one of his regulars and goes outside to sell to him. He is immediately arrested by an undercover cop as it turns out he's been set up. Leah picks up the kilo and quietly leaves with it.
Leah goes to visit Blue in jail where he tells her that due to his priors he will be getting twenty years in jail. Leah decides to help him, telling him that she has the coke, so the police have no evidence. He tells her to return the kilo to Lloyd and explain the situation. Instead, she finds a lawyer (Chris Noth), intending to deal the coke to pay his fee. He's optimistic that they have a very good case.
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