2020 · drama
Hillbilly Elegy
Directed by Ron Howard1h 57m2020
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.
Our read: Hillbilly Elegy (2020) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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