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.