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Lawless

film by Hillcoat [2012]

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In Jessica Chastain
Chastain’s credits in 2012 included Lawless, about Depression-era bootleggers in rural Virginia, and Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, in which the actress played a CIA analyst who helps find Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks; for her work in the latter, she garnered another Oscar nod.
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In Gary Oldman: Blockbuster franchises: Harry Potter and Batman
…appeared as a gangster in Lawless, a Prohibition-era drama about bootlegging.
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screenplay by Cave

In Nick Cave: Film work
…2006 Venice Film Festival, and Lawless (2012), a Prohibition-era drama about bootlegging. Cave’s acting credits include the films Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (1988), which he also cowrote, and Johnny Suede (1991). Cave was the subject of the documentaries 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and One More Time with Feeling (2016).…
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