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Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by U.S. vice president JD Vance. The film stars Amy Adams and Glenn Close , and features Gabriel Basso , Haley Bennett , Freida Pinto , Bo Hopkins in his final film appearance, and Owen ...
“Hillbilly Elegy,” the movie, is part of a much larger genre of sweet-tea Southern coming-of-age stories — “Mommie Dearest” meets “The Andy Griffith Show,” in which a star as radiant ...
The 2020 movie "Hillbilly Elegy" is a Netflix exclusive. The streaming company won a bidding war in 2019 and paid $45 million for the rights to Vance's life story.
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Before Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was announced as Trump's running mate, the first-term senator gained prominence for his 2016 memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy."
Before Vance, 39, was a couple of steps away from the most powerful position in the world, he was just a self-proclaimed “hillbilly” raised in the Appalachian mountains, living in poverty ...
Even Vance expressed admiration for our trajectory, writing in "Hillbilly Elegy" that white Appalachians wallow in pessimism, unlike Latino immigrants, “many of whom suffer unthinkable poverty
The prescription for American dependency, written in Hillbilly Elegy, is no longer just for Ohio. “I believe we hillbillies are the toughest goddamned people on this earth,” is the clarion ...