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In Hazzard County, Georgia, cousins Bo and Luke Duke run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, driving an orange 1969 Dodge Charger they call the General Lee. Daisy, their cousin, works at the Boar's Nest, and Commissioner Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane hound the family. On a delivery, a customer finds Luke with his sister, and the man and his father chase the boys until the car sticks at a construction site. At the Boar's Nest, stock-car driver Billy Prickett returns for the annual Hazzard rally, which he has won four times; Bo wants to break that record. Rosco stops a scuffle with Prickett's crew, then plants a still in Uncle Jesse's barn and takes the Duke farm for Boss Hogg. The family moves in with neighbor Pauline.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
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- Before release, Warner Bros. reportedly paid $17.5 million to the producer of Moonrunners, the film that had inspired the original TV series, and screenwriter Gy Waldron soon followed with his own claim.
- James Best, who played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the original TV series, filed a lawsuit in 2011 over royalties he was contracted to receive from spinoffs that he said used his identity.
- Ben Jones, who played Cooter Davenport in the original series, publicly called on fans to boycott the film over its sexual content unless it was toned down before its August 5 release.
- Johnny Knoxville was initially reluctant to play Luke Duke, and only signed on after script rewrites and after learning stunt coordinator Dan Bradley, whom he called a director every filmmaker in Hollywood wants for car sequences, would run the chase scenes.
- The short cutoff shorts worn by Catherine Bach's Daisy Duke in the original series became so identified with the character that skimpy jean shorts are now commonly called "Daisy Dukes."
- Jessica Simpson's cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" for the soundtrack became her fifth top-20 single in the US, but its music video stirred controversy over its sexual imagery.
