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Hillbilly Elegy
2020 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Ron Howard
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.
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My family back in India loves Slumdog Millionaire. It's a relatively accurate portrayal of poverty in India.
The American equivalent was Hillbilly Elegy. The book was well reviewed (though the movie adaptation was not), and friends who grew up poor described it as relatively faithful to the general experience of growing up poor in rural America.
I have no idea who JD Vance is
He wrote Hillbilly Elegy which was a NYTimes #1 bestseller, an Oprah book club pick, and sold over a million copies.
It also go made into a movie by Netflix.
He's now running for Senate in Ohio where he stands a decent chance of winning (though Josh Mandel is probably the current frontrunner).