Thursday, April 23, 2009

Movies: The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia



Johnny Knoxville was on Howard this morning promoting his new documentary that's showing at the Tribeca Film Festival this week called The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.

Here's a brief synopsis of the film from JackassWorld:

Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug-dealing, pill-popping, murders, and tap dancing. From MTV Studios and executive producers Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine comes a shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the Whites—Boone County, West Virginia’s most notorious and surly family. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family lives an existence more like something from the Wild West than modern day suburbified America. The legendary family is as known for their wild, excessive criminal ways as they are for their famous mountain dancing members, including Jesco White, the star of the cult classic documentary Dancing Outlaw. Over the course of one tumultuous year, the Whites deal with a stabbing, criminal sentencing, attempted murder, death, and birth. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is directed by Julien Nitzberg (producer of Dancing Outlaw and daily raider of the jackassworld kitchen).
Sounds crazy rad, huh?

You must see the trailer here - NSFW

So now my mission is to track down the original documentary about this guy Jesco (professional tapdancer/lunatic), called Dancing Outlaw. Here's a clip from the movie in which he talks about sloppy eggs, violence, huffing airplace glue, huffing gasoline, sniffing lighter fluid and seeing snake ladies.

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