The Curry Brothers of "Rick White Boy" & # 39; are they based on real people? The crime movie looks for accuracy

The spectators ofRick White Boy probably not believe the sequence of events unfolding before their eyes if it's not for the title card that says "based on a true story" at the beginning of the film. The gangsters / cops movie that was released in theaters on September 14th has so many dramas and surprises that it sometimes seems unrealistic, but that's what makes it so fascinating. Not only is Richard Wershe Jr., aka "White Boy Rick" (Richie Merritt), drawn from reality, but even the most incredible characters in Rick White Boy like Curry Bros are based on real people.

Two of the Curry brothers, Johnny and Leonard (played respectively by Jonathan Majors and YG) have important roles in Rick White Boy because they were really the leaders of an extremely important drug gang that the FBI had targeted in their investigation. The inclusion in the film of a third brother of Curry, Ruddell "Boo" Curry (RJ Cyler) is also accurate, but as the youngest, he was not as severely punished as Johnny , "Lil Man" and Leo or "Big Man."

In real life and film, Wershe Jr. was hired as an FBI informant at the age of 14 to help police arrest the Curry brothers. It is also true that Wershe ended up engaging romantically with Johnny's wife, Cathy Volsan Curry, as reported by the Daily Beast.

The relationship between Wershe Jr. and Cathy proves how much the juvenile informant became very involved as he spent his time rubbing shoulders with drug traffickers like the Curry brothers. Although Wershe Jr. helped police arrest the Curry brothers, he remained entangled in Detroit drug dealers and, ironically, he had to face more jail than Johnny and Leo.

The Michigan news site reports that Johnny and Leonard were released from prison more than 10 years ago, while Wershe Jr. is still serving 17 pounds of cocaine at the age of 18. time, led to a mandatory life sentence. Since the law has changed since the arrest of Wershe Jr., he is now facing parole hearings, but the Curry brothers still play a big role in determining his future.

Recently, Wershe Jr.'s attorney noted that his client had helped facilitate the arrest of the Curry brothers at a parole hearing. M Live reported that the lawyer, Ralph Musilli, spoke about the importance of Wershe Jr.'s work as an informant, especially for the Curry brothers.

Rick White Boy begins as an exciting secret police story, but the movie ends on a somewhat dark note. If there had not been the actions of Wershe's father, Richard J. Wershe Sr. (Matthew McConaughey), who encouraged his work with the FBI, he could have had a more typical childhood. Instead, he found himself entangled with the Curry brothers, and now he faces a harsher punishment than those he had undertaken to help discipline him. Knowing that the film is a true story makes it all the more thrilling, but all the more disappointing.