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Aug 23, 2012 · Later this month, Hollywood releases the movie “Lawless,” based on the real-life story of a notorious Virginia bootlegging family. We get the story behind the story from the family’s grandson who wrote the book upon which the movie is based while working as a professor at a local university.
It tells the story of the Bondurant Boys (Howard, Forrest, and Jack) of Franklin County VA who were involved with moonshining during Prohibition. The movie is the real life story of Jack Bondurant as told by his grandson, Matt Bondurant in his book “The Wettest County in the World”
Apr 2, 2021 · The characters of Jack, Forrest, and Howard Bondurant are based on the real relatives of the author of the novel, Matt Bondurant. The former is based on his paternal grandfather, while the latter two characters are modeled after his grand-uncles.
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It tells the story of the Bondurant Boys (Howard, Forrest, and Jack) of Franklin County VA who were involved with moonshining during Prohibition. The movie is the real life story of Jack Bondurant as told by his grandson, Matt Bondurant in his book “The Wettest County in the World”.
Aug 7, 2012 · Jason Clarke standing), Tom Hardy left) and Shia LaBeouf are the Bondurant brothers, real-life bootleggers from 1930s Virginia, in the new film “Lawless,” based on the book by Mount Vernon...
Aug 20, 2012 · Bondurant, a bespectacled forty-one-year-old who often touches his fingertips to his shaved head, as if to mold an emerging thought, said that he’d had few hard facts to go on, aside from some...
Aug 29, 2012 · 99+ Photos. Biography Crime Drama. 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. Director. John Hillcoat. Writers. Nick Cave. Matt Bondurant. Stars.
