The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

This film highlights and glorifies the drug addict and white trash sterotypes about people from West Virginia. These people do not represent true West Virginians. These people are nothing more than system leeches that have spent their entire lives working the system. They are legends in their own minds and nothing but a group of drug addicted lowlife criminals.

Hilarious documentary that's really a cringe comedy involving a colorful (and criminal) West Virginia family. The White Family is filled with outrageously colorful and literally criminal characters who are endlessly entertaining to watch in a Jerry Springer sort of way. However, the filmmakers are clearly mocking their subjects and hold them in contempt, which makes the film seem less objective and more simply a sneering elitist hit piece on these uneducated criminal hill folk. Still, the White Family is so outrageous, it's a train wreck that's impossible to look away from and compulsively watchable.

Seeing Johny Knoxville as the Executive Producer, it doesn't shock me that this was a movie exploiting the biggest collection of hillbilly trash I've seen since Deliverance. While it's a decent documentary and very informative re: this disturbingly uneducated band of trash, the local Defense Attorney said it perfectly at the very beginning: a local kid got accepted to MIT. Why isn't a camera following him around? This documentary is a saner, longer version of Jerry Springer.

What starts as an Outlaw trainwreck finishes as a White Trash trainwreck. Then again, what's the difference? Knoxville & Tremaine's doc is completely exploitative. But the Whites obviously love attention any ways.

It's watchable but very depressing. There are dysfunctional families and then there are the Whites. Not to mention this story is rather scattershot with no real narrative.

The early family started out as Rebels and devolved into government dependent drug addicts. The tragedy is about the kids being raised in their sickness. With all that, a pretty entertaining flick.

I was actually turned on by the women in this film. My next wife is definitely gonna be chosen from a WVA Walmart on a Sat night.

On the surface, this documentary could be seen as a mockery of redneck West Virginians. But the Whites represent all the families around the world that are the products of generations of no education, entitlement, crime, rebellion, and religion. Add drugs and alcohol to the mix, and you have any provincial family in the United States. (And I've never spent so much time watching a story where my jaw hurt by staying agape for so long.)

The Whites are undeniably fascinating, but Nitzberg fails to construct his footage into an interesting story.

Seeing Johny Knoxville as the Executive Producer, it doesn't shock me that this was a movie exploiting the biggest collection of hillbilly trash I've seen since Deliverance. While it's a decent documentary and very informative re: this disturbingly uneducated band of trash, the local Defense Attorney said it perfectly at the very beginning: a local kid got accepted to MIT. Why isn't a camera following him around? This documentary is a saner, longer version of Jerry Springer.