Watch NowHillbilly Elegy (2020)
09/11/2020
Drama
1h 57m
- 67% (945 votes)
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Inspired by a true story three generations in the making.
Overview
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.
- Ron HowardDirector
- Vanessa TaylorWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- child abuse
- based on novel or book
- heroin
- drug addiction
- american dream
- overdose
- kentucky
- ohio
- yale university
- drug rehabilitation
- hillbilly
- based on memoir or autobiography
- single mother
- teenage boy
- law student
- grandmother
- appalachian
- 1990s
- appalachian mountains
- mother son relationship
- traditional family
- mother son estrangement
- childhood memory
- small town life
- negative
- absurd
- hilarious
Top Billed Cast
Amy Adams
Beverly "Bev" Vance
Glenn Close
Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Gabriel Basso
J.D. Vance
Haley Bennett
Lindsay Vance
Freida Pinto
Usha Chilukuri
Bo Hopkins
Papaw
Owen Asztalos
Young J.D. Vance
Jesse C. Boyd
Matt
Stephen Kunken
Phillip Roseman
Keong Sim
Ken
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