What do you think of “Lawless”?
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Pictured clockwise, from top left: "Lawless" has an impressive young cast, led by Shia LaBeouf ("Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the "Transformers" series), Mia Wasikowska ("The Kids Are All Right," "Alice in Wonderland," "Jane Eyre"), Tom Hardy ("Inception," "The Dark Knight Rises"), and Jason Clarke ("The Chicago Code").
The violent crime drama set in Franklin County, based on Matt Bondurant’s novel of moonshine running, The Wettest County in the World, opens in theaters this week. Are you going to see it? What do you think?
Here’s some of our past coverage of this film as its wound its way through development in Hollywood.
• Film review: Movie ‘Lawless’ not flawless in showing its layers of fiction
• Bondurant kin leery of ‘Lawless’ portrayal
• Rocky Mount goes Hollywood with ‘Lawless’
• Cannes Film Festival abuzz over ‘Wettest County’ moonshine flick
• So, it’s not “The Wettest County in the World” anymore. It’s the most “Lawless” county in the world.
• ‘Wettest County’ — Franklin County — goes Hollywood
• Prospects for “The Wettest County in the World” appear to have dried up.
• Australian film director hints at ‘Wettest County’ casting
August 30, 2012 - 10:42 AM
My 95 year old father is from Franklin County. He knew moonshiners in his community. I thought he might enjoy Matt Bondurant’s book but I decided to read it first. I was shocked by the violence. That was not the life of my father’s moonshining neighbors.
Am I going to see it? No, the violence is a turn off for me.
Violent yes. But I can’t say that we didn’t enjoy it. Although, I did see more of Scarface than I did of this one … I hid my face a LOT. Good movie overall.
take that hipster douche shia out and maybe i’ll go see it.
I was not prepared for the violence. Loved the Bondurants and actors portraying them.
I wonder if the Boudurants Of Radford are related to the implied moonshiners of the lawless movie?
My uncles father was Sheriff Hodges. I keep a picture of Jeff Hodges name on the vietnam wall where he died in Viet Nam in 1968. Jeff would have been so facinated by this film. I wish he could see it in heaven.
the movie was semi acurate like most movies but the real thing was more dangerous/violent than the movie can portray.
Pjenkins, Shia was actually excellent in the film, despite being a hipster douche.