Hillbilly Elegy

Cast

Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett View All

Crew

Ron Howard (Director), Vanessa Taylor (Writer) View All

Release: Nov. 11th, 2020

Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.

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8 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 ...

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Gideon58
After a beautifully scenic introduction to this very tight community where everybody knows everybody, the story cleverly alternates between a look at young JD's troubled relationship with his drug addicted mother Bev, and adult JD trying to help his mother start over again.

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