Search results
Aug 29, 2012 · Lawless is a film based on the true story of the Bondurant brothers, who ran a bootlegging business in Virginia during the Prohibition era. They face corruption, violence and gangsters as they fight for their freedom and their family.
- (255K)
- 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.
The film is about the violent conflict between three bootlegging brothers: Forrest (Hardy), Howard (Clarke), and Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf) — and the ruthless lawman Charley Rakes (Pearce), who tries to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine business after Forrest refuses to pay him off.
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 family...
- Matt Bondurant
- Contributor
- 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.
Moonshine: Directed by Roger Ingraham. With Brian Greer, Sarah Ingraham, Gareth Duvall, Ginny Fitzpatrick. A young convenience store clerk's passionless existence is altered eternally when a vampire steps out of the shadows.
‘Dandelion’ finds its voice telling the story of a woman who seeks hers. Stars KiKi Layne and Thomas...
