The wild and wonderful Whites of West Virginia

The wild and wonderful Whites of West Virginia

DVD - 2010

A shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the White Family of Boone County, West Virginia's most notorious extended family, with shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing and using, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family glorifies their criminal behavior and lives an existence more like something from the Wild West than modern-day America.

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Subjects
White family.
White, Jesco.
Outlaws > West Virginia.
Drug dealers > West Virginia.
Criminals > West Virginia.
Dysfunctional families > West Virginia.
Mountain people > West Virginia > Biography.
Rural families > West Virginia.
Documentary films.
Boone County (W. Va.) > Social life and customs.
West Virginia > Social life and customs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Genres
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Feature films
Language
English
Other Authors
Julien Nitzberg (-), Deke Dickerson, Jesco White
Item Description
Bonus features: audio commentary with Johnny Knoxville and director Julien Nitzberg; Do the White thing: the making of The wild and wonderful Whites of West Virginia; lost Jesco tapes; interview with Hank Williams III; interview with director Julien Nitzberg; 83 minutes of deleted scenes.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC; widescreen; Dolby digital, 5.1 surround.
Audience
Not rated: intended for mature audiences.
Production Credits
Music, Deke Dickerson ; editor, Ben Daughtrey ;
ISBN
9781422995204
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

The Whites are West Virginia "royalty": rebels and outlaws descended from D. Ray White (1927-85), a famous mountain dancer whose murder left the family in chaos. Since then, the vast clan, now in its fourth generation, has become notorious in Boone County for its disorderly ways, chronic drug abuse, and pugilistic lifestyle. And viewers won't be able to take their eyes off the spectacle. Every scene pre-sents the beaten-down Whites drinking or drugging; in the most shocking instance, a mother postpartum cuts lines of coke on her hospital-room nightstand. Local officials provide commentary, explaining how the Whites are products of a combination of mountain isolation, a culture of entitlement (welfare and disability), and a fatalism bred by the exploitative system of coal mining. Will the youngest generation escape the cycle? It seems unlikely, although the film does end on a hopeful note. Bonus features include an interview with family friend Hank Williams III. For sociology collections and fans who can't get enough of reality TV.-David Gibbs, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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