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Lawless

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Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.

Year

2012

Duration

1h 56m

IMDb

7.2

Trailer

Cast

John Hillcoat

Director

Tom Hardy

Forrest Bondurant

Shia LaBeouf

Jack Bondurant

Guy Pearce

Charley Rakes

Jason Clarke

Howard Bondurant

Jessica Chastain

Maggie Beaufort

Mia Wasikowska

Bertha Minnix

Dane DeHaan

Cricket Pate

Chris McGarry

Danny

TT

Tim Tolin

Mason Wardell

Gary Oldman

Floyd Banner

Lew Temple

Deputy Henry Abshire

Marcus Hester

Deputy Jeff Richards

Bill Camp

Sheriff Hodges

Alex Van

Tizwell Minnix

Noah Taylor

Gummy Walsh

Mark Ashworth

Hophead #1

Tom Proctor

Hophead #2

Bruce McKinnon

Jimmy Turner

Nick Cave

Writer

MB

Matt Bondurant

Writer

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Comments

10 comments

BFeb 26, 2026

b

Juvan ManteFeb 10, 2026

not good revenge though , stupid movie

Som BanksFeb 9, 2026

sweet. movie

Ajose OluwatomilolaAug 1, 2025

Good and very interesting movie

PVAbX5Nov 6, 2024

must watch

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Lucky SewaniSep 12, 2022

In 1931 Virginia, backwoods brothers dealing in moonshine are not so much concerned with their competitors as they are with the new (and utterly corrupt) deputy in-cahoots with the weak-willed local law. Screenwriter Nick Cave, adapting Matt Bondurant's factual book, writes pummeling scenes of violence, all of which director John Hillcoat appears to revel in. For every interesting scene of human interaction, there are two or more sequences of bloody brutality (culminating in a castration bit--apparently played for a squeamish guffaw--which is as purposeless as it is revolting). The well-produced picture has a solid cast, though it wastes its actors on poorly-conceived material (particularly Gary Oldman, in a glorified cameo, playing a suave gangster who just about evaporates). And with whom are we supposed to root for? These siblings, hellbent on retaliation, are just as nasty and ruthless as their enemies. ** from ****

user7755760881469Sep 12, 2022

First, Tom Hardy is one of my favorite all-time actors. His slow, lackadaisical manner in this movie is so much like Southern "boys", then and now. No, I am not exactly a Southern Boy, but I served with a number of them in the Military. I am a transplanted Lower Indiana boy, in the East. This movie will get my third viewing, having finished watching it 2x already. The comment by "WildBullWriter" is spot on: Southern rural hill people. Unless one understands the guts and glory of the hard-scrubbed rural folk across our land in the 1900s through WWII, they will not understand how historical fiction speaks to historical reality in this film. Guy Pearce as Charlie Rakes is superb in his role as a Chicago "gangsta". Ruthless to his core, Rakes "gets his" in the end. Country folk never have cared much for the high falutin Dandies from the big cities! 😃