Hillbilly Elegy

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With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy strands some very fine actors in the not-so-deep South.

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Movie Info

A Yale Law student drawn back to his Appalachian hometown reflects on his family's history and his own future.
  • Rating:
    R (Some Violence|Language Throughout|Drug Content)
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Ron Howard
  • Producer:
    Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder
  • Writer:
    Vanessa Taylor
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Production Co:
    Imagine Entertainment, Netflix
  • Aspect Ratio:
    Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Amy Adams
Bev
Glenn Close
Mawmaw
Gabriel Basso
J.D. Vance
Freida Pinto
Usha
Sunny Mabrey
Bonnie - Mamaw 30s
Bo Hopkins
Papaw
Dylan Gage
Kameron
David Atkinson
Ray
Ron Howard
Director
Vanessa Taylor
Screenwriter
Brian Grazer
Producer
Ron Howard
Producer
Karen Lunder
Producer
Julie Oh
Executive Producer
Kevin Halloran
Executive Producer
J.D. Vance
Executive Producer
William M. Connor
Executive Producer
Maryse Alberti
Cinematographer
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TV Premiere Dates 2020
Holiday Movie Calendar 2020
New on Netflix in November 2020
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Critic Reviews for Hillbilly Elegy

All Critics (233) | Top Critics (58) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (171)

  • Hillbilly Elegy is objectively terrible.

    December 10, 2020 | Full Review…

    Alana Anton

    Bitch Media

  • Adams and Close deserved better than this relentlessly gloomy, often trite, movie. We all did.

    December 8, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

    Wenlei Ma

    News.com.au

  • There's only a vague message about bootstraps and personal responsibility, and a whole lot of bad wigs.

    December 4, 2020 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

    Sara Stewart

    Book & Film Globe

  • Hillbilly Elegy and its Oscar dreams are all sizzle, no steak.

    December 4, 2020 | Full Review…

    Jordan Hoffman

    TV Guide

  • Hillbilly Elegy is an Oscar-friendly narrative of personal triumph in the face of great hardship, a movie designed to end with an uplifting epigraph; it is also one of the worst movies of the year.

    December 4, 2020 | Full Review…

    David Sims

    The Atlantic

  • Hillbilly Elegy communicates precious little about the culture it depicts - and exploits - with Oscar-baiting aspirations.

    December 2, 2020 | Full Review…

    Adam Nayman

    The Ringer
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