The Paperboy (2012)

The Paperboy is Lee Daniels' humid Southern thriller from 2012, tracking a reporter and his brother as they dig into a death row case tangled up in Florida swamp corruption. The film became notorious less for its plot than for how far it pushed its cast, and Zac Efron spends a good chunk of runtime stripped down in a performance that turned heads. Matthew McConaughey lends his own grit to the story's murkier stretches, rounding out a cast unafraid of exposure. The site carries 1 scene from the movie, preserving the skin-baring intensity that kept people talking well past its theatrical run.