Dear White People
“A satire about being a Black face in a white place.”
A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League college comes to a head when the staff of a satirical magazine stages an offensive Halloween party.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Homegrown Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Dear White People performed
Budget
$1.3M
Worldwide Gross
$5.4M
Gross Profit
$4.1M
Return
4.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$778K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Lionel Higgins
Tyler James Williams
Lionel Higgins
Samantha White
Tessa Thompson
Samantha White
Kurt Fletcher
Kyle Gallner
Kurt Fletcher
Colandrea 'Coco' Conners
Teyonah Parris
Colandrea 'Coco' Conners
Troy Fairbanks
Brandon P Bell
Troy Fairbanks
Sophie Fletcher
Brittany Curran
Sophie Fletcher
Gabe
Justin Dobies
Gabe
Reggie
Marque Richardson
Reggie
Helmut West
Malcolm Barrett
Helmut West
Dean Fairbanks
Dennis Haysbert
Dean Fairbanks
President Fletcher
Peter Syvertsen
President Fletcher
George
Brandon Alter
George
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