• Director: John Hillcoat
• Writer: Nick Cave, Matt Bondurant (novel)
• Cast: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke, Dane DeHaan
• Language: English
• Theatrical Release Date: August 31, 2012
• Distributor: The Weinstein Co.
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Tagline: When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes.

Synopsis: This family saga follows the Bondurants, bootlegging brothers runnin’ stills, runnin’ loads, and runnin’ from the law in Depression-era Virginia. The book is mainly narrated through the experience of the youngest Bondurant, Jack (in truth, a grandfather of the author), and his family’s moonshine enterprise supplies the action in a plot that evokes the culture of distilling and distributing white lightning. To optimistic Jack, bootlegging is both a bond to his older brothers, Forrest and Howard, and a means to make cash to impress a girl. Forrest, by contrast, is taciturn and suspicious: the world is violent, and he meets it on that ground. Tender of the stills and imbiber from same, burly Howard is always ready to take on the Bondurants’ enemies, corrupt law officers. Wending through this conflict in flash-forward mode is novelist Sherwood Anderson, who plumbs the Bondurant story a few years after the brothers’ climactic confrontation with the county sheriff. Descriptively gritty and emotionally resonant, novelist Bondurant dramatically projects the poverty and danger at the heart of the old-time bootlegging life. [Synopsis via TheFilmStage] Note: The film was previously titled "The Wettest County," but was changed when Terrence Malick gifted the title "Lawless," which he had been using for a now untitled project.