Like a familiar song goes, the hills of “Lawless” are alive. But the thing that keeps the Prohibition-era community of Appalachian mountain men humming in this movie isn’t music, but moonshine.
Based on “The Wettest County in World,” a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, the grandson of one of the story’s main characters, “Lawless” is the saga of three backwoods brothers and their booming bootleg whiskey business in the early years of the Great Depression.
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