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Hillbilly Elegy

film by Howard [2020]

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    • Ron Howard
      In Ron Howard

      Hillbilly Elegy, an adaption of J.D. Vance’s best-selling memoir, was released on Netflix in 2020. The drama Thirteen Lives (2022) is a retelling of the real-life rescue of a youth football (soccer) team from an underground cave.

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  • memoir by Vance
    • A book that launched a career
      In Hillbilly Elegy: Praise and criticism

      …Elegy was made into a film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Gabriel Basso as Vance and Glenn Close as Mamaw. The 2020 movie received largely poor reviews, but Close was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress.

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      • Glenn Close
        In Glenn Close

        In 2020 Close starred in Hillbilly Elegy, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir by J.D. Vance, whose family was from Appalachia. For her performance, she received another Academy Award nomination. She then was cast as a doctor in the sci-fi drama Swan Song, in which a dying man (Mahershala Ali),…

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