Black and White (1999) on Netflix
Filmmaker Sam Donager documents the scene around Rich Bower, whose apartment draws white teens who want in. Rich's friend Dean, a college basketball player, is offered money to throw a game.
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Plot summary
Rich Bower is a rising figure in rap music, involved in other businesses as well, and his apartment serves as a meeting place for musicians, hangers-on and the white high school teenagers who want inside the scene. Raven, Charlie, Will, Marty and Wren are among the young people who hang around him. Sam Donager, a filmmaker, is documenting Rich and his circle for a documentary, helped by her husband Terry, who is gay and does not feel at home in the milieu. Dean Carter, a college basketball player and a friend of Rich since childhood, is offered money by a bookmaker to throw a game, and against his better judgment he takes it.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Black and White (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Most of Black and White was improvised by its cast, but every one of Claudia Schiffer's lines as Greta was completely written for her.
- Claudia Schiffer had her ears pierced for the first time to wear her character's large hoop earrings, while Brooke Shields wore fake dreadlocks and had her nose temporarily pierced for a nose ring.
