"I happen to have friends in the "deep south" and their neighbors are moonshiners. Would wake in the morning hearing shotgun blasts, killing wild turkeys? "White Lightnin' puts all the myths of the modern day hillbilly to rest." Hogg is amazing and outrageous at the same time and the cast is strong but the story as cut is just too fragmented for myself to give a slightly better than average review. The film is also too short and I think it needed more narrative to tell the story-line better. Well shot and designed with decent euphoric imagery works like a bad acid trip. Haunting and stays with you equals success for these Filmmakers. Soundtrack is very creative and original, but my only major downer was the too fast, quick cuts editorial. I look forward to this Directors future work for sure! -CSPS-Media

If you're on board with Vice and their crap, than you'll dig this. Yeah, Vice is trying to be more of a "legit news service" lately, but in 2009 they were still a crappy and sleazy tabloid rag run by jerks that loved pranking people for money. Rather shallow group of idiots back then.

That all said, the film stays well enough away from the truth to be mildly entertaining. But, the desaturated film effect gets dull superfast and the accents are laughable. I suppose that if you've never ever heard of Jesco and live nowhere near West Virginia, you might take this all in as true. Sadly, it's a notch above a Hallmark film in quality and made me long for the documentaries.

Some people have said in their reviews that this movie, based on a true story, got some details wrong. Even so, the film version is just WOW! And the lead actor, Edward Hogg, is amazing. Carrie Fisher melts in to her role so much that I never even knew she was in the film until it was over and looked at the cast list.

And the music! Another WOW! Not always an easy film to watch but a great journey. I just wished they would have gone just another scene or two to show more of the outcome.

Well done! Why has this director not done any more movies? He did a masterful job, both in writing and direction.