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Aug 29, 2012 · Lawless is a 2012 film based on a true story of the Bondurant brothers, who ran a bootlegging business in Virginia during the Depression era. The film follows their conflicts with corrupt authorities, gangsters and rivals, and features Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- John Hillcoat
- 2012-08-29
- The Dukes of Hazzard. August 5, 2005. Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg.
- Black Snake Moan. December 31, 2006. A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
- Lawless. August 29, 2012. In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging.
- The Shepherd of the Hills. July 18, 1941. Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die.
Plot. In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — middle brother Forrest, eldest brother Howard, and youngest brother Jack — are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, Virginia.
Highest-Rated Movies about 'Moonshine'. Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Paper Moon (1973), October Sky (1999), Night Is My Future (1947), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), They Live by Night (1948), Lawless (2012), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Moonshine movies. #16.
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- Miller's Crossing. Another Irish Mob film, and maybe the Coen Brothers' most underrated, Miller's Crossing crossed humor with Tommy Gun shoot-em-up action, as Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne) begins a torrid love affair with his boss Leo O'Bannon's (Albert Finney) mistress Verna, played in show-stealing fashion by a red-lipsticked Marcia Gay Harden.
- Road to Perdition. American mob films are often centered around the Sicilian mafia, but Road to Perdition examined an Irish Mob family, led by John Rooney (Paul Newman).
- Once Upon a Time in America. Sergio Leone moved from his usual Spaghetti Western fare to Once Upon a Time in America, a four-hour epic about the Jewish immigrant experience during Prohibition.
- Chicago. In 2002, Rob Marshall adapted Chicago for the screen, after the musical's many long runs on Broadway starting in 1975. The film version was a hit, reinvigorating the American obsession with the Prohibition Era in film, as it won six Academy Awards and smashed box-office records for musicals.
Aug 27, 2012 · He stars in the new film Lawless, based on my novel The Wettest County in the World, which dramatized the events surrounding my Grandpa Jack's bootlegging business—and a shooting that my...
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