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Moonshine Highway

1996 American film

Andy Armstrong
Becky Arntzen
Chris Danton

Starring

Kyle MacLachlan
Randy Quaid
Maria del Mar

CinematographyRichard QuinlanEdited byPatrick McMahonMusic bySteve Dorff

Production
company

Showtime Networks

Distributed byShowtime

Release date

5 May 1996 (1996-05-05)

Running time

96 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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 5 May 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).^[1]

Plot

Set in the 1950s, in backcountry Tennessee, the story focuses on Jed Muldoon (Kyle MacLachlan), a World War II veteran who smuggles illegal corn whiskey in his modified Lincoln.

Muldoon is having an affair with Ethel Miller (Maria del Mar), whose husband is the corrupt, local sheriff Wendell Miller (Randy Quaid). Sheriff Miller is under pressure from federal agent Bill Rickman (Alex Carter) to arrest the moonshiners.

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan as Jed Muldoon
Randy Quaid as Sheriff Miller
Maria del Mar as Ethel Miller
Alex Carter as Bill Rickman
Gary Farmer as Hooch Wilson
Jeremy Ratchford as Dwayne Dayton
Les Carlson as Pappy
Dennis Fitzgerald as Clancy Clayton
Raliegh Wilson as Claude Clayton
Michael Copeman as Ol Man Clayton
Jody Racicot as Haywood Possum
Rick Roberts as Travis Saunders
Lori Hallier as Rose
Eleanor Joy Lind as Waitress Lorna
Dick Callahan as Moody
Doug Lennox as Parker
David Cronenberg as Clem Clayton
Beau Starr as Dale Lister
Andy Armstrong as Bill Meyers
Stuart Hughes as Stopwatch Man
J. Winston Carroll as Ned the Barman
Todd William Schroeder as Deputy Clyde
Mike Lee as Deputy #2
Jason Deline as Grocery Boy (uncredited)

Production

Moonshine Highway was filmed in Ontario, Canada: in Markham; Mississauga; New Tecumseth; Pickering; Scarborough; Toronto; and Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Home media

It was first released on videotape on 6 August 1996. It later was released on DVD in Argentina in May 2008.

References

^ Howell, Mark D. (1997). From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p. 117. ISBN 0879727403. Retrieved 24 April 2016.