Lawless

Synopsis: In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. 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.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): John Hillcoat
Production: The Weinstein Company
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
R
Year:
2012
116 min
$36,300,000
Website
4,171 Views


Come on, Jack.

Just pull the damn trigger.

I can't.

My brother Forrest once said,

"Nothing can kill us.

We can't never die. "

The reason being

that in the great war,

my eldest brother, Howard,

saw his entire battalion

drown in the sea.

Every last one of them.

He was the only survivor.

And Forrest, well,

that same year,

Spanish Lady flu hit Franklin,

damn near wiped out

the entire state.

It got Ma and Pa and Forrest

but against all the odds,

he somehow managed

to fight it off.

So you could see

why Forrest felt that way.

Me and my brothers

are moonshiners.

Bootleggers.

In 1920, they passed

the Prohibition Act

making the sale

of alcohol illegal.

Well, at least

it was supposed to be.

You want a case, Sheriff?

- Morning, Forrest.

- Pure corn whiskey.

That there's the white lightning, Sheriff.

It'll come at you like a knife,

pointy end first,

sharp and hot all the way down.

Aw, damn it. Give me two.

All right, then.

- You all right there?

- Thanks, boys.

Always happy to oblige

an officer of the law.

They called Franklin

the wettest county in the world

on account of almost everybody

was making the stuff.

Now, you can make moonshine whiskey

from just about anything.

Whoa! Whoa, whoa!

Hey, Selma.

Turnips, pumpkins,

blackberries, cornmeal, tree bark.

- Anything.

- All right, then.

He's so f***ing sick, man, can't get

himself out the bed to tend the stills.

- You want me to take it up to him?

- No, I can do it.

And at night, in them hills,

you could see them fires

from the stills burning

like lights on a damn Christmas tree.

over the mountains, in the cities,

there was the biggest crime

wave this country'd ever seen.

And all that illegal liquor

was flowing down from the hills

to the cities by the truckload.

Gangsters were just scooping money

off the streets like candy.

They had men like Al Capone,

Tommy Maloy,

that mad dog Floyd Banner.

They just moved in and took over.

Meanwhile, we were hauling stuff around

in our old, beat-up jalopies.

All right now, Jack,

I want you to stay here.

- What?

- Stay in the truck.

Ain't like someone's gonna steal

this piece of sh*t, Forrest.

Just do what you're told, Jack.

All right, Forrest, go on.

Amen! Amen!

Here we go. All right, then.

Get some of this.

Welcome, welcome.

How're you boys doing?

Sorry to hear about Little Bean,

Ida Belle.

You know Little Bean loved

his gals and his giggle water.

She sure is giving him

one hell of a send-off.

Give me your money, boy.

Yeah, you do as I say

- or I'm gonna cut you.

- Hold on, now, I ain't got nothing.

I'm just a driver.

You boys staying?

No, we gotta be getting off, Ida Belle.

Come on, Forrest, one damn drink.

No, we better be getting back now.

You ever seen a Harlem sunset?

Well, I'm fixing

to cut one right into you...

I ain't got nothing.

...if you don't hand over

that goddamn money.

Motherf***er.

Here, I'll take care of this.

Hey you, come on now,

you don't want to do this.

Why don't you put that knife away,

take you and your friends on home?

I'd listen to him if I was you.

You the boss?

You just sold a load to those

dinges in there, didn't you?

You hand over that cash or I'm gonna

cut some daylight into you.

Listen here, mister.

We got no way of

understanding this world.

We got about as much sense of it

as a bird flying in the sky.

There is a lot that bird don't know.

But it don't change the fact that

the world is happening to him

all the same.

What I'm trying to say is...

...is that the course of your life,

it is changing.

- You don't even see it.

- What are you talking about?

Let's go!

Yep.

That's what he's talking about.

Yeah, all right now.

You all right there, Jack?

Just caught me off guard is all.

You still good to drive?

- F*** you, Howard.

- Oh, whatever you say,

little doggie.

All right, Jack, come on,

we gotta go set up over here.

Thank you.

Finest apple?

All right, then.

Are you gonna talk to Forrest about

taking some of me and Cricket's liquor?

- We're working on somethin' big.

- What do you mean talk to him?

About letting us in, Howard.

Not with that damn popskull sh*t

you been cooking up.

- We're still perfecting it.

- Perfecting it, my ass,

Jack, that sh*t

ain't fit to slop hogs.

Forrest don't want you involved, is all.

Why is that?

'Cause he don't think you got the grit.

Gimme another jar, Jack. Huh?

You might wanna slow down some,

Howard. We're trying to sell this stuff.

- Who is that?

- She's one of them crazies

from that church at Burnt Chimney.

Her daddy over there,

he's gonna be the preacher.

You wanna get yourself a crowbar, Jack,

if you wanna get inside of her.

She don't

look that crazy.

Her daddy don't look too happy, neither.

All right, now.

Jack, go on and

take this around the back.

Store whatever's left in the shed.

You too, Howard.

- Come on, Jack.

- Yeah.

Are you Forrest Bondurant?

Um...

I'm Maggie Beaufort.

They say in town you're looking for

someone to help out 'round the place.

Is that position still vacant?

Forgive me for asking, but, um...

...what does a lady like you...

...want here?

The city can grind a girl down.

Gets to a point where you start

looking for somewhere quiet.

Damn.

Well, Mr. Bondurant...

...do I get the job?

Quick. Quick.

Hey!

Cricket!

Hey!

Hey!

You ain't never gonna believe

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