Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by JD Vance about the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young. It was adapted into the 2020 film Hillbilly Elegy, directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. Later, Vance progressed in politics, becoming a senator from Ohio in 2023 and the vice president of the United States in 2025.
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Hillbilly Elegy was adapted into a 2020 film.
Hillbilly Elegy2020 · film · 116 min · dir. Ron Howard · IMDb ↗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.
