Hillbilly Elegy

Hillbilly Elegy Movie Details:

Hillbilly Elegy Movie Cast & Characters:

• Amy Adams as Beverly “Bev” Vance, J. D.’s mother
  • Tierney Smith as young Beverly “Bev” Vance
• Glenn Close as Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance, J. D.’s grandmother
  • Sunny Mabrey as young Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance
• Gabriel Basso as J. D. Vance
  • Owen Asztalos as young J. D. Vance
• Haley Bennett as Lindsay Vance, J. D.’s sister
• Freida Pinto as Usha, J. D.’s girlfriend
• Bo Hopkins as Papaw Vance, J. D.’s grandfather

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Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown.—Netflix

About Hillbilly Elegy Movie:

Hillbilly Elegy is an American drama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, based on the 2016 memoir of the same title by J. D. 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 Asztalos.

After buying the rights to Vance’s book in 2017, Imagine Entertainment announced Howard as the film’s director. In 2019, Netflix acquired the distribution rights in January, much of the cast joined in April and filming took place from June through August in Georgia and Ohio.

Hillbilly Elegy was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2020, before its streaming release on November 24, 2020, by Netflix, to a mixed reception. It received three nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director for Howard, Worst Screenplay for Taylor, and Worst Supporting Actress for Close. Close was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, while Adams’s performance earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.

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