Hillbilly Elegy movie review: Shallow and dreary family melodrama – NEWS.com.au

When you have powerhouse actors Amy Adams and Glenn Close in a movie directed by Ron Howard, you think youre in for something great.You think you’re going to hear the words “Oscar buzz”, especially for perennial bridesmaids Close and Adams who between them have 13 nominations and no win.
Hillbilly Elegy is not going to be that shot because no one deserves to be awarded for this melodramatic, dreary, poverty porn of a movie.
Ostensibly an exploration of the hardships of white working-class Americans…

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