When the corrupt District Attorney Mason Wardell arrives in Franklin with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other.
Jack courts the preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery.
When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities. Three rebellious, bootlegging brothers find the elusive American Dream within their reach, and fight to maintain their grip as powerful urban gangsters reap the rewards of their hard work in this sprawling Great Depression-era crime drama from director John Hillcoat The Road, The Proposition. At the height of Prohibition, ambitious country boy Jack Bondurant dreams of becoming "Public Enemy 1" while reaping all the benefits that go with the gangster lifestyle.
By expanding his family's moon shining business, he plots to launch a vast criminal empire while winning the heart of beautiful Amish girl Bertha. Take them over? Kill them all?
This Charley Rakes, he's a piece of work. Here in the deep woods, he sticks out like a riverboat gambler. He's meticulously well-dressed, parts and slicks back his hair like Valentino, and uses so much cologne, he can't sneak up on anyone.
He may be the first man in the history of Franklin County to wear dress gloves in the daytime. Pearce creates a detailed, foppish performance, adorning a sadistic personality. Charley is such a snake he deserves to be shot just on principle.
One of the movie's mysteries is how he survives for so long. The three brothers run a combination shop, restaurant and gas station in the backwoods, where as I recall, we never see a customer. It's their center of moonshine operations. Brother Howard Jason Clarke is the most feared in the family.
Kid brother Jack Shia LaBeouf feels he has never really proved himself to the others, but the movie provides him with the opportunity. What kind of a man is Forrest? When his throat is slit open, he holds the edges of the wound together and sets out to walk through the snow to the hospital. Drawn to this remote place is a mysterious woman named Maggie Jessica Chastain from Chicago, who was a dancer but wanted to move to a more peaceful place.
Her husband died in an accident in , and she died in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in at the age of How true is the movie Lawless? Forrest Bondurant can definitely take a few hits.
And he survives miraculously. In the movie, Jack and his two brothers were successful bootleggers during the great depression. The other is Charlie Rakes. In real life, Rakes was a Franklin County deputy sheriff involved with another officer in a shoot-out at a road block. Rakes, in the movie, turned out to be a federal ATF officer sent from Chicago to crush the local moonshine profession. Lawless film Lawless is a American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat.
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