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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
4,650 Views


A couple years later,

Howard moved to Martinville,

found work in the textile mills there.

Surprised us all by getting hitched,

having a whole bunch of children.

Bertha Minnix,

the preacher's daughter, well,

that gal always had

a rebellious streak in her.

We got married the following year.

I ran my daddy's farm.

Raised cattle,

grew tobacco.

All right, then, here we go.

After he got shot at the bridge,

Forrest spent two weeks

recuperating in the hospital.

Then he walked out of there

and married Maggie.

- You gonna toast, Howard?

- Yeah.

Neither of them told no one.

I only found out years later.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

He was like that, Forrest.

Don't you boys be making a commotion

when you come upstairs, all right?

- Yes, ma'am.

- I'm going to bed.

Come on, you, up to bed.

Night.

Good night, boys.

Hey, come on, Forrest.

Come on.

Why don't you show us a dance?

Come on, Uncle Forrest, get up.

Come on!

- Come on.

- I ain't dancing for you two jackasses.

Come on, huh?

I'm gonna go get me some air.

- Do one move.

- No.

- Here we go, here we go! Oh, oh...

- Come on...

There ain't enough space.

Let him walk it off.

Yep, I'm gonna...

I'm going to bed, too.

It's too damn cold to be sitting

out here on this porch.

Midnight's upon us already.

Night, Forrest.

- Night, Jack.

- Good night.

Forrest once said

nothing could kill us,

that we could never die.

And back then I think

I actually believed it.

Hell, I know Forrest did.

'Cause no matter what

this world flung at him

he seemed to be able to just

stand up and keep on going.

Getting a little more bent,

a little more twisted each time.

But nobody leaves

this world alive.

Not even Forrest.

And in the end,

it was dumb luck

and pneumonia that got him.

It was as simple

and indifferent as that.

Nowadays, we Bondurants

abide by the law.

People ain't trying to cut our throats,

stab us, shoot us no more.

Them days are long gone.

Sometimes when I'm out on the porch,

just sitting around doing nothing,

hell...

...it sure does get

real quiet around here.

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