Moonshine Highway

*Moonshine Highway*
Moonshine Highway
Written by	Andy Armstrong
Directed by	Andy Armstrong
Starring	Kyle MacLachlan; Randy Quaid; Maria del Mar;
Music by	Steve Dorff
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Andy Armstrong; Becky Arntzen; Chris Danton;
Cinematography	Richard Quinlan
Editor	Patrick McMahon
Running time	96 minutes
Production company	Showtime Networks
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	May 5, 1996

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).^[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.