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Hillbilly Elegy [Netflix Only] Superb acting dominates Ron Howard's poignant, engaging, well-written, realistic, touching, 116-minute film based on J. D. Vance's memoir in which a smart, hardworking Yale Law student (Gabriel Basso), who has a devoted girlfriend (Freida Pinto) doing an internship in Washington, D.C., reminisces about his troubled childhood growing up with his caring older sister (Haley Bennett) as a struggling Appalachian teenager (Owen Asztalos) in Jackson, Kentucky, in the late 1990s and dealing with his drug-addicted mother (Amy Adams), who lost her job as a nurse due to stealing medication and to acting erratic and becomes increasingly unstable after the sudden death of her father (Bo Hopkins), and eventually agrees to move in with his curmudgeonly, cigarette-smoking, widowed grandmother (Glenn Close) who desperately tried to stir him into applying himself in school and staying away from his lowlife buddies so that he can hopefully have a bright, successful future.   Redhead: Year: 2021 Rating:  R View Hillbilly Elegy on the Internet Movie Database