Forrest hears of this and tells Jack that he needs to learn how to fight for himself. When they don't find it, Rakes brutally beats Jack when he tries to intervene. Jack later finds Rakes raiding Cricket's house in search of his distilation equipment. He attends the church drunk and makes a fool of himself, causing Bertha's father to forbid her from seeing him, which only makes her more interested in Jack, with whom she flirts. Meanwhile, Jack meets Bertha Minnix (Mia Wasikowska), daughter of the local preacher. Forrest later meets with the other bootleggers and convinces them to stand up to Rakes as well, though they eventually give in to Rakes' violent intimidation tactics. Rakes informs Forrest that he wants a cut of all profit made by Franklin's bootleggers, but Forrest refuses and threatens to kill Rakes if he returns. Shortly afterwards, the bar is visited by brutal Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), on behalf of District Attorney Mason Wardell. One day, Jack witnesses mobster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) eliminating a competitor and they exchange looks before Jack returns to the bar, where Forrest hires Maggie Beauford (Jessica Chastain), a dancer from Chicago, to be their new waitress. Meanwhile, as the three siblings rise to power while battling treachery on both sides of the law, a mysterious woman named Maggie appears out of nowhere, prompting the thoughtful Forrest to question the true price of his outlaw ways.ĭuring the Prohibition era, the Bondurant brothers - Forrest (Tom Hardy), Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia LaBeouf) - run a successful liquor bootlegging business in Franklin County, Virginia, with the help of their friend, Cricket Pate (Dane DeHaan), using their bar as a front for their illegal activities. Stoic and stalwart, Forrest is the kind of man who holds his cards close, and places a high value on character. But they need a strong leader to guide them - a responsibility that falls on their eldest sibling Forrest. With his older, intimidating brother Howard by his side, Jack has the brawn to get the job done, too. By expanding his family's moon shining business, he plots to launch a vast criminal empire while winning the heart of beautiful Amish girl Bertha. At the height of Prohibition, ambitious country boy Jack Bondurant dreams of becoming "Public Enemy #1" while reaping all the benefits that go with the gangster lifestyle. Three rebellious, bootlegging brothers find the elusive American Dream within their reach, and fight to maintain their grip as powerful urban gangsters reap the rewards of their hard work in this sprawling Great Depression-era crime drama from director John Hillcoat (The Road, The Proposition). Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. Jack courts the preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. 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. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war.
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