Hillbilly Elegy
 

This movie was a huge let down. Although it was a true story, it felt like a cookie cutter rise from poverty story. In its effort to show the struggle of low-income living, it overplayed the drama of the story into almost being a parody of the topics it was trying to cover.

Clearly this was a drive for awards, but Amy Adams does not deserve recognition for this. She played an unloveable character even though the story demanded that you at least pity her.

Glen Close, on the other hand, puts on a hell of a performance and it’s worth it to at least watch her in this one. She plays a character with a lot of depth, showing love for her family with discipline and hard truths.

This movie did not give me much to care about, story wise, but there are a couple performances that make it at least worth watching.

5/10

Re: Hillbilly Elegy
 

If this dog gets an award, then I guess we're all doomed. Even if it is true, it's a close contender for the Color Out of Space Award.

Re: Hillbilly Elegy
 

I hated this movie. Didn’t believe in any of the characters.

This was another movie that I definitely didn't get the film I was expecting. With the word "hillbilly" in the title, I expected a much more in depth look at this American subculture that really hasn't been explored beyond the Kettles and the Clampetts. The first few minutes seemed like that's what we were going to get, but 15 to 20 minutes into the movie, the hillbilly motif seemed to have been forgotten and we were given just another dysfunctional family story.

lol this is funny because it's based on dude's actually family

Doesn’t mean I am going to believe in the way they’re portrayed on screen.

Well the look of the Grandma is at least a dead ringer

My least favorite character: Glenn Close as grandma. I didn’t buy this for a second.

Re: Hillbilly Elegy
 

What, you're telling me that the whole sequence where she collapses, ends up in hospital, then ripping out her IV and racing over to the deadbeat stepdad's house to collect the protagonist upon intuiting that he's engaging in juvenile delinquency is somehow ridiculous?