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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a bestselling 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
- J. D. Vance
- 2016
Nov 24, 2020 · Hillbilly Elegy: Directed by Ron Howard. With Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett. 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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- Drama
- Ron Howard
- 2020-11-24
Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, It is based on the 2016 memoir of the same name, by J. D. Vance. The film stars Amy Adams , Glenn Close , Gabriel Basso , Haley Bennett , Freida Pinto , Bo Hopkins (in his final film appearance), and Owen Asztalos.
Jun 28, 2016 · From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans.
- 2016
- J. D. Vance
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. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Ron Howard
- 117 min
Nov 24, 2020 · The film version of J.D. Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" arrives on Netflix so encumbered by cultural baggage and expectations that it's hard to appreciate what it actually is—along with the things it does well, which are numerous, and understated enough to vanish in the haze of the zeitgeist.
J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis fo...
- 2 min
- 2.6M
- Netflix
