What movie is about the youngest FBI informant ever at 15?

The movie about teenage FBI informant Richard Wershe Jr. is White Boy Rick.

Released in 2018, White Boy Rick is a crime drama directed by Yann Demange and starring newcomer Richie Merritt as Wershe. Matthew McConaughey plays Wershe’s father, Richard Wershe Sr. The film is loosely based on the Detroit teenager’s life during the city’s 1980s drug crisis.

Wershe became known as “White Boy Rick” after the FBI recruited him as a confidential informant while he was still a teenager. Sources commonly describe him as the youngest known FBI informant, but the often-repeated age varies: accounts place his recruitment or informant activity at about 14 or 15. That distinction explains why quiz questions sometimes use 15 while other references use 14.

The film follows his involvement with both law enforcement and Detroit’s drug trade, then examines the severe legal consequences that followed. White Boy Rick premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2018 and received a U.S. theatrical release the following month. It is a dramatization, not a documentary, so some events and relationships are compressed or reshaped.