The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia – Boing Boing

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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

☠ All cameras aimed at a grinning Johnny Knoxville—flanked by a bluegrass band—outside the theater where “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” made its Los …

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/25/the-wild-and-wonderf.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

As the film unfolds, we meet more upstanding Boone County residents: attorneys, churchgoing folks with jobs. Through both what they do and do not say, we learn how the Whites have terrorized the town they dominate for decades.

Asked to comment on the reputation of the White family early in the film, Boone County evangelist Patricia Smith pauses, then says—”I’d really rather not comment on that.” Who can blame her? These are deadly rednecks.

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