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| runtime = 115 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $26 million | gross = $53,676,580〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=wettestcountry.htm )〕 }} ''Lawless'' is a 2012 American crime drama film directed by John Hillcoat. The screenplay by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave is based on Matt Bondurant's historical novel ''The Wettest County in the World'' (2008). The film stars Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy Pearce. The film is about the violent conflict between three bootlegging brothers–Forrest (Hardy), Howard (Clarke), and Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf)–and the ruthless Deputy Charley Rakes (Pearce) and his men, who try to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine business after Forrest refuses to pay the cops off. The film was in development for about three years before being produced. It screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was theatrically released on August 29, 2012. ==Plot== In 1931, the Bondurant brothers—Forrest, Howard and Jack—are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, in the Virginia Piedmont region. They use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal activities, and their friend Cricket Pate assists them in their endeavors. One day, Jack witnesses mobster Floyd Banner shooting a competitor, and Jack and Floyd exchange looks. Jack returns to the gas station, where Forrest hires Maggie Beauford, a dancer from Chicago, to be their new waitress. Shortly afterward, the gas station is visited by newly arrived Special Deputy Charley Rakes, accompanied by the Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Mason Wardell, the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy. Charley tells Forrest that he wants a cut of all profit made by the county's bootleggers. Forrest refuses and threatens to kill Rakes if he returns. Forrest later meets with the other bootleggers and convinces them to stand up to Rakes as well, though they eventually give in to the deputy's intimidation. Meanwhile, Jack meets Bertha Minnix, daughter of the local Brethren preacher. He attends their church drunk and makes a fool of himself, causing Bertha's father to forbid her from seeing him, but this makes her more interested in Jack. When Jack later finds Rakes raiding Cricket's house in search of his distillation equipment, liquor, and cash, the deputy brutally beats Jack to send a message to his brothers and other bootleggers. Forrest tells Jack that he needs to learn how to fight for himself. Forrest and Howard arrange to meet with potential "clients" from Chicago, but Howard gets drunk with a friend and misses the appointment. When the two mobsters harass Maggie, Forrest and Cricket beat them up. Later, after Cricket leaves, the men return, slash Forrest's throat, and rape Maggie. While Forrest recovers at a hospital, Jack decides to travel across the county line with Cricket to sell their remaining liquor. There, they are double-crossed by the mobsters, who intend to execute them. They are rescued by Floyd Banner, who recognizes the Bondurant name, due to their courageous stand against Rakes. Banner already knows of the attack on Forrest and the identities of his two assailants; he gives Jack their address and advises him that the pair are working for Rakes. Forrest and Howard later find, torture, and kill the men, both in retaliation and to send a piece of each to Rakes, as a message. Banner becomes a regular client of the brothers', who move their distillation equipment to the woods and earn great profits. Jack continues to court Bertha. Maggie initially decides to leave, but Forrest convinces her to stay, letting her use a spare room. They soon begin a romantic relationship. Eventually Jack decides to show Bertha the still, but they are followed and ambushed by Rakes and his men. Howard and Jack flee from Rakes' men with Bertha and Cricket. Rakes later captures and murders Cricket. After Cricket's funeral, the sheriff of Franklin County visits the Bondurants to warn them that Rakes and his men are blockading the bridge out of the town, and Wardell has called in ATU agents to shut down the moonshine business. Jack takes off in Cricket's old car to confront Rakes. Howard alerts Forrest of this and persuades him to get in the car and follow him to provide back up for Jack, though Maggie tries to dissuade him, saying she found him when wounded and took him to the hospital. Forrest realizes then that she was also attacked that night, though Maggie attempts to deny it. On arrival Jack faces the blockade and is shot by Rakes, once Howard and Forrest's attempted rescue results in their being shot during a firefight. The hillbilly bootleggers appear ''en masse'' and scare Rakes' men into siding against him. Rakes shoots Forrest several times before being shot in the leg by one of his own men and attempts to escape. Jack and Howard confront Rakes, Jack shoots him in the chest, and Howard fatally stabs him in the back, avenging Cricket's death. With Rakes and his men dead, the Bondurants work legitimate jobs and retire from bootlegging, after Prohibition ends. Within a year of the war with Rakes, Jack has married Bertha and started a family, Forrest has married Maggie, and Howard has married a local woman. During a reunion at Jack's house, Forrest drunkenly walks to a frozen lake, does a little dance, and falls into the freezing water. Though he gets back up, Jack tells the audience that Forrest later dies of pneumonia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawless (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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