Movie
1998
The Newton Boys is a 1998 American crime film directed by Richard Linklater, who co-wrote the screenplay with Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker. It is based on Stanush's 1994 book of the same name, which tells the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank and train robbers from Uvalde, Texas. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, who was born in Uvalde, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Dwight…
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Real life crime stories were always popular source of inspiration for Hollywood film makers. However, criminals who could have called themselves successful were rarely or never subject of Hollywood films. Explanations for that are simple. First, successful criminal is a criminal whose activity remains undetected and who, therefore, remains invisible to the public. When some of them, by some chance, become revealed,…More
