Underplayed Gems

Moonshine Highway (1996)

Moonshine Highway poster
Directed by
Andy Armstrong
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A moonshiner runs illegal whiskey in the American South and clashes with law enforcement and rivals. The film follows his efforts to protect his operation and his way of life.

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What happens

Moonshine Highway is a 1996 American thriller-drama made-for-TV-movie written, produced, and directed by Andy Armstrong. It stars Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, and Maria del Mar. It was broadcast in the United States by Showtime on May 5, 1996. The film has been described as a recent example in a tradition of popular cultural depictions of moonshiners as "noble renegades" of the backwoods South (also found in 1958's Thunder Road). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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