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Inspired by a true story three generations in the making.
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.
Hillbilly Elegy
2020 Directed by Ron Howard
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Amy Adams Glenn Close Gabriel Basso Haley Bennett Freida Pinto Bo Hopkins Owen Asztalos Jesse C. Boyd Stephen Kunken Keong Sim Morgan Gao Ethan Suess Jono Mitchell Bill Kelly David Dwyer Sarah Hudson Ted Huckabee Nathan Hesse Max Barrow Sunny Mabrey Brett Lorenzini Tierney Smith Helen Abell Kinsley Isla Dillon Ryan Homchick Joshua Stenvick Bill Winkler Chase Anderson Amy Parrish Show All…
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Aaron Robert Hall Sam Carter Maxfield Ladish Natalie LeCompte Breanne Grover LeShae Ann Nash Cara Price
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Bryan Haines Chris LeDoux Jessica Chamberlin Ben Sumner Wes Dorough Christian Wood Sean Thigpen Madison Eckler
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Элегия Хиллбилли, Era uma vez um sonho
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Moving relationship stories Politics and human rights Underdogs and coming of age Faith and religion family, emotional, emotion, touching or kids drugs, violence, crime, gritty or cops emotional, emotion, family, moving or feelings emotional, emotion, sad, drama or illness school, teacher, student, classroom or classmates Show All…
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gotta admire Ron Howard for making sure Glenn and Amy keep a healthy social distance from that Oscar.
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i swear to god...if amy adams gets a razzie before they finally give her an oscar i'm going to riot
(also: this is basically this year "the goldfinch")
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not to state the obvious but rich people who have never stepped foot in Appalachia should not be making films about appalachia... especially when they choose to adapt a story from a capitalist republican who exploited his family trauma to stereotype an entire region as “poor just because they’re lazy” while completely ignoring the systems that consistently fail them... it’s very much a neoliberal mockery that is beyond embarrassing and nearly impossible to sit through... what was anyone involved in this thinking 😭 fuck this movie and fuck jd vance
(also appalachia is visually beautiful and it’s actually okay to show that sometimes)
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First published in the summer of 2016, J.D. Vance’s timely “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis” became a bipartisan bestseller for obvious reasons: It lent conservatives the moral cover that some of them needed to support Trump, and offered “I would have voted for Obama a third time” liberals the performative satisfaction of making a good-faith effort to understand how anyone could. Here was a book that tapped into failings on both sides of the aisle to paint a mutually agreeable picture of the forgotten people in the middle of the country; a Randian self-portrait of a poor Ohio kid with Appalachian blood who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, defied the gravity of the learned…
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This movie would never have had to happen if y’all just gave Adams her Oscar for Arrival
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Leave aside the terrible performances, shitty directing, incoherent editing and non-existent narrative momentum, at no point do any of the filmmakers seem to have considered answering the question: Why should I care about this awful little shit?
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