Build a movie plot around this: Who follows Jake to try and help Jake? Howard and Forrest
This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)In 1931, the Bondurant brothers Forrest (Tom Hardy), Howard (Jason Clarke) and Jack (Shia LaBeouf) are running a successful moonshine business in the Virginia Piedmont region of Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for their illegal manufacturing business with the assistance of Jack's disabled friend and engineer, Cricket (Dane Dehaan). Jack witnesses infamous mobster Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman) shoot dead a rival in broad daylight.Jack returns to the gas station, where Forrest hires dancer Maggie (Jessica Chastain) as a waitress. Shortly afterward, the gas station is visited by newly arrived Special Deputy Charley Rakes (Guy Pearce), accompanied by the Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Mason Wardell, the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy. Rakes demands a cut of profits from all bootleggers within the county, including him. Forrest refuses and threatens to kill Rakes if he returns. Forrest implores his fellow bootleggers to unite against Rakes, but they refuse.Meanwhile, Jack lusts after Bertha, daughter of the local Brethren preacher. He attends their church service drunk, embarrasing herself but piquing her interest. Jack walks in on a visit from Rakes to Cricket's house, and is beaten by him as a message to his brothers. That night, Forrest beats and throws out two customers who had been harassing and threatening Maggie. After Maggie resigns due to the unruly townsfolk and leaves, Forrest is ambushed by the two men who slit his throat. Maggie returns looking for Forrest but is beaten and raped by the men. She decides to keep the assault from Forrest.While Forrest recovers at a hospital, Jack decides to cross the county line with Cricket to sell their remaining liquor. They too are ambushed by the mobsters, led by Banner, but are spared...