White Girl

Plot synopsis:
Leah (Morgan Saylor), a young university student, moves in with her best friend Katie (India Menuez) 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 (Brian Marc), 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 (Adrian Martinez) 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.
Approaching her boss, Kelly (Justin Bartha), Leah manages to sell a third of the kilo. She also enlists Katie and Blue's friends to help move the rest of the coke, while at the same time telling Blue that the lawyer is representing him pro bono. As her debts to Blue's lawyer pile up and Lloyd finds her and threatens her to make her come up with the rest of the money she approaches Kelly for a seventeen thousand dollar loan to cover all the costs. He instead helps her throw a rave with a cover charge in order to get it all. The party is a success but Leah takes too many drugs and wakes up alone with all the money gone.
Leah promises the lawyer she will get him the rest of the money but he tells her to forget about it. He takes her to dinner where he explains that the legal system is unequal and white boys who commit violent crimes are more likely to get off for their crimes then non-violent offenders like Blue. The two end up going to Leah's place where Leah passes out and the lawyer rapes her.
After the rape Leah becomes silent and withdrawn, taking to her bed. She is surprised one day by Blue who arrives in her apartment and crawls into bed with her. He reveals that the lawyer managed to free him and credits Leah with saving his life. Getting on one knee he proposes to her, to which she doesn't give a clear answer.
Walking down the street together Leah and Blue are surprised when Lloyd attacks them both, wanting his money. Blue first hits him over the head with a broken bottle then beats him to death with a wrench. As Leah looks on, Blue silently realizes that she provoked the attack by not returning the coke.
Blue is arrested, watching Leah coldly as he's driven away. Leah is last seen in a classroom, just before the credits.

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Review:
During the publicity blitz for this movie director and writer Elizabeth Wood made a big deal about how this was based on her real life experiences, how unshocking it was (while simultaneously playing up that their were tons of sex scenes and nudity to play up the shock factor) and how unfair it was that white women like herself were able to dabble in drugs for fun in college, while their Latino and black peers were treated like criminals for far lesser offences.
Now all these things led me to expect a much different movie, but watching White Girl I was almost bored by how tame and basic it was and how little it had to say beyond that one message.
Unlike most reviewers I saw this movie with intimate knowledge of street life, and the director got a whole lot right there.
A very promising debut from a female director that knows her stuff, from the moment doves fly away when two lovers are reunited or that moment when the camera gets tired of watching the white girl getting taken advantage of too many times and hides from the scene behind a wall before going back to a mirror reflection of said image.
While at times playing like a softcore porno a la Game of Thrones and there are too many sex scenes just thrown around, the drama is intact and the WAY that the story is told is very compelling..
First time writer-director Elizabeth Woods delivers a raw, energetic, and downright uncomfortable tale about a young college student named Leah, who moves to the big apple and finds love in one of the local drug dealers named Blue, one night of partying later finds the two separated as he's arrested on possession of narcotics, and that's 3 strikes for him, and Leah must do whatever she can to be reunited with him.
Cultures clash in unexpected ways when a couple of white college girls move into a Latino neighborhood and start hanging out with the local drug dealers.
The opportunistic, sleazy Lawyer Every single one of these individuals was presented with such stunning clarity, that I wondered if the actors were just playing an on-screen version of themselves.The movie started simple enough, and as it spiraled further down the rabbit hole, I found myself horrified, disgusted, incredulous, and just awe-struck at how one person could make such stunningly bad decisions in her life.
After watching this movie, I am glad I made the right choices in life.The acting and directorial style are so nuanced, that it was literally like watching the life story of a stupid, stupid girl (who happens to be white) spiral out of control.
Any white girl, aged 16-30 will probably love this film, even if the whole time you're screaming 'OH MY GOD why did she do that' This is a story of a girl who spends a summer thinking with her short term gains in mind, its all fun and games until it hits close to home.
God damn I don't wanna give away too much into the story because its so good, but trigger warning, there is rape culture that comes with most dramas about sex and teenage girls with drugs and dealers..
'WHITE GIRL': Four Stars (Out of Five) An indie drama, written and directed by first time feature filmmaker Elizabeth Wood.
It tells the story of a hard partying college student, in Queens, that falls for a local drug dealer.
The film stars Morgan Saylor, Brian 'Sene' Marc, Justin Bartha, India Menuez, Adrian Martinez and Chris Noth.
Leah makes friends with the local drug dealers, and becomes especially attracted to a guy named Blue (Marc).
So when Blue is arrested, for dealing drugs, Leah decides she'll do almost anything to get him back (but she still can't stop partying).The film is full of explicit sex scenes, nudity and hard drug use.
The two lead characters are both likable, and the actors playing them both do a really good job, but it's extremely depressing watching the two of them both continue to make foolish mistakes (I like to drink, but Leah is out of control in this film).
they must of spiked his koolaid because he's too good for this tripe .The film maker made this film based of her life experiences .No need to go watch this film just .Listen to any one of the interviews shes given on the subject matter and you'll see what a empty soul she is .The main character of the film is no different she epitomizes the stereotype of blonde bimbo.She sleeps with anyone who will look in her direction does any drug shoved under her nose .
For me easy nature was apparent for me the moment she decides to just make friends and get nice with the local drug pushers .Now some in the indie pseudo intellect world would defend the act on doing real sex on camera as being artistic and not at all what it appears to be .
This movie only appeals to very low brow young and dumb and or pseudo intellects of the indie film world .If you consider yourself a deplorable than this movie is for you if your a normal rational thinking person with any shred of real intelligence you'll stay away as it only reduces IQ points .Go watch the movie kids less pretentious than this film and is worth a watch avoid this at all costs if you have a life and or common sense .
An idea that, if it wasn't already obvious enough, Elizabeth Wood beats us over the head with in the scene where Leah has dinner with the lawyer.White Girl is unapologetically feminist, and being directed by a woman, it gets a lot of this right, Leah isn't a trope, she's not a stereotype, she's a naive young girl who makes a lot of really, really terrible decisions.
Especially Leah, who knows that as a pretty white girl, there's a lot that she can get away with, and come out unharmed.
And we know that too.Not only is White Girl difficult to get pulled in to as a result of its lack of a real sense of consequence, it also seems to push us away with its sloppy attempt at shock cinema.
Every other scene is someone snorting coke, getting their tits out, or puking their guts up (is there anyone in this movie who doesn't do drugs?) Some of the comments on sexuality, especially female sexuality are interesting, and there's clearly a lot to say here about the male gaze and the danger of that towards young women, but then the gratuitous sex scenes never stop in an attempt to shock us, and we lose interest.As a drug dealer drama, and a comment on race, Wood hits all of the tropes that we'd expect.
The attempts at making the love interest more of a love interest and less of a sex interest were hilarious at times, this movie just couldn't get the dialogue right for those characters at all, it was awkward as hell.White Girl was summed up for me when Doug from The Hangover got cocaine snorted off his dick.4.5/10.
A film of despair it looks at desperate times despite a wild culture of a fun party life..
"White Girl" is one of those little independent movies that most in the mainstream don't see still if you do you see it's a showcase of a culture of despair and carefree lifestyle that in the end is a doom and dead way for all involved.
Set in New York city it involves the life and times of a college girl named Leah(Morgan Saylor)and this young lady is a free spirit who's a bisexual colored bra wearing college party girl who enjoys wild time after time.
And after meeting a guy who she feels for the world of drugs consumes and overtakes their life and way of living and the entire culture involves getting help and getting out of trouble.
This film really has a message of showing that the wild life of sex and drugs is to often meet with despair and desperation despite having love and hope..
Leah (Morgan Saylor) is a cute white college girl living with her roommate in New York City.
White Girl movie is a waste of time.
While I understand the intent of showing the girl going bad journey, this film, from beginning to end, reveals the most idiotic, immoral, unaware, dangerous, and disgusting behavior.
From beginning to end, the protagonist main character "White Girl" does nothing but put herself in vulnerable positions party after party to a point of date rape, being left at a club in a state of medical need, in a sexual relationship with her boss, drug dealer(s) and more.I've got as open a mind as the next person, but this film was clearly a misogynist's dream script.
A young woman falls for a small time drug dealer who ends up in jail facing a long sentence.
Leah may have been self centered and just out for a good time at first, but she risked her own life to save Blue many times in this film.
At the beginning of the Film we find out that Blue's nickname is "Sad" He tells Leah it's because he is sad all the time .
And by the film's end, just like Saylor's character, Leah, we are left asking what we would do in the name of love.
The most enjoyable aspects of the film were letting go as a viewer and following a seemingly ordinary college student into a dark world characterized by drugs, sex, and, what should be, reggae-ton.
Can a young, White girl attending college in New York fall into the hands of a charming drug dealer?
Writer-Director Elizabeth Wood's indie film "White Girl" stars a very impressive Morgan Saylor as Leah, a New York city college intern who is a white girl that will do all it takes to get that white powder up her nose.
Leah meets Kelly (Brian "Sene" Marc), a drug dealer who she falls for but consequently ends up Leah drowning in a heap of trouble after her new beau is arrested.
Acting as if Thirteen & Kids didn't exist, we have White Girl, a cautionary tale more for us not to watch than our lead.
That gives me an odd feeling about the characters of White Girl, which include a young college age girl named Leah moving into "the Hood", a place she only witness on a Jay Z album.
Then the realness of White Girl becomes more movie like.
The trailer shows that realness of a young girl out in the world exploring her wild side, but the movie itself becomes about Leah's drug dealer boyfriend going to jail and Leah trying to get him out using the drugs he left behind.
Though what I describe seems like a zany comedy, White Girl is a very intense ride on a downward spiral.It is funny watching Leah going in over her head as she basically learns how the world she now lives in works.
But White Girl is a movie I enjoined watching, It's not the art house cinema I thought it would be, and as it started out to be, turning much more into a much more typical "indi" product that cheapens the experience, at the same time making it far more enjoyable for me.http://cinemagardens.com/.
The drug dealer, Blue, tells her early on that he doesn't mess with cocaine yet for the duration of the movie he seems to have no problem with her snorting it all away.
(Btw, this is coming from a feminist's perspective – I'm mentioning this because I've seen White Girl labeled as misogynistic, which I don't think is the case at all.)Leah is intentionally flawed and difficult to read.
For the bulk of the film she's thinking about her own self interests first and foremost, whether it's getting her next hit, fetishizing her hot drug dealer neighbor Blue, recklessly losing $24k in drug money or blurring the lines with her boss at a magazine internship.
Like Wood, he has relatively few film projects under his belt but his performance in White Girl is well up there with the seasoned elite.
Brian's performance helps viewers realize he's not playing some wannabe G fu**boy drug dealer, he's playing someone far more vulnerable than that.What Leah sees as meaningless fun, Blue sees as a form of stability and something serious.
Meanwhile, Blue will no doubt be reminded every living day as he (likely) serves out a murder sentence that didn't need to happen, had it not been for Leah's careless, selfish actions.The scariest thing about this movie is its realness..
watch it if you've already seen every other movie that's ever existed ever and you feel like wasting 90 minutes of your life you'll never get back.
I don't really know why, but the way Leah's downward spiral was portrayed was downright hypnotizing at times.And then there's the ironic ending and final scene, which really elevated this film from a 6 to a 7 for me.
Which for as simple as it sounds, that scene held A LOT of impact and brought new depth to the whole of the film.I definitely read it as some commentary on white privilege.
Her Latino boyfriend ends up in jail facing many years for just mere possession, whereas the ubiquitous white girl not only possesses, but sells copious amounts of drugs, and she never even once has so much as a finger pointed her way, let alone an arrest.Maybe I am reading into it too much, but that scene really changed everything for me.
I've seen many films like this before, but this was a particularly arresting tale of an archetypal white person who rejects a life of privilege in favor of a hard knock life.
I watched White Girl not knowing what the plot was and not expecting a whole lot since I started the movie by accident around 1:00am.
Typical plot, Mid western girl moves to big city where recreational drug use and drinking escalates to heavy drug use/dealing, hard partying, and gets caught up in a situation she seemingly can't get out of.The progressive spiral downward of Saylor's character was done fairly well.
I'd have like to know more on why Leah acted the way she did aside from being young just not giving a damn about what she was doing.
I mean, within the first 20 minutes of the film, Leah is asking for weed from a stranger/dealer on the street, has her underwear to her ankles and gives her boss oral in his office her first day of work, has said dealer and his friends in her home a day after they met and has sex in an ally with the dealer the same night.Seriously?To me, Saylor's performance was outstanding as her character's struggles with decision making and drug use escalation was very believable.
Maybe that's it.The young woman in the movie, Leah (Morgan Saylor), is returning to Queens, NY a few days before college starts to move into an apartment.
If you are into parties, nightclub-going, loud rap music, like to watch people getting high and having all sorts of sex, this is the movie for you.
Yes, SJWs I get your point.But luckily this obvious point just lets one roll our eyes and yet isn't pushed to hard so one can just watch the story.I don't think all the sex and drugs are supposed to shock the audience, they actually are supposed to look as part of everyday life that she chose which is can come off as dull for some.
But while, at first, there was this intrigue of when it seemed she was in control, she had the upper hand, once her game became her dealing with someone's actual life that she potentially ruined, so was lost what made this movie seem good.On The FenceHBO Styled Depth & DramaWhen it comes to branding, HBO (who doesn't have an association with this movie) I think consistently allows their creators to use sex and drugs to mask underdeveloped characters and weak stories.
So, among watching Leah spend time with Blue, try to help Blue out of a situation she set in motion, and then see her struggle to do so, it is like we barely get to know this person before us.
You gotta detach from that stuff, especially being a woman (I don't even understand how our boy from Sex in the City did that scene, but that's acting, gotta make some dough I suppose), BUT the angle of the camera and how it showed the reflection of it happeningat first she seemed alone on the sofa, which is really what this girl was throughout the movie.alone, lacking common sense, no direction.just LOST.Every single person in this movie was stupid, a victim or a predator.
This movie showed how drugs and alcohol, as anyone with common sense knows, brings out the worst in people, including perversions and darkness.
That scene was epic.At first I thought they should've cast a more classically attractive lead, but this movie works much better with the lead they picked, because it's a reflection of this girl in every waysometimes she's pretty, sometimes she's beautiful, sometimes she's mediocre, sometimes she's ugly, a lot of the time she's stupid, and sometimes she smiles that innocent smile that shows how sweet she is on the inside.
I continues seeing this film in my suggestions list on Netflix but kept skipping over it because I wasn't interested in watching a film about a white girl getting high, drunk and having sex for two hours.
Despite being a drug dealer, Blue's life was pretty mellow without her.
One cannot use this movie to scare kids not to use drugs because here are some explicit sex scenes.