Hillbilly Elegy

Inspired by a true story three generations in the making.

Plot Summary

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.

6.7 /10

2020

US

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child abuse

based on novel or book

heroin

drug addiction

american dream

overdose

kentucky

ohio

yale university

drug rehabilitation

hillbilly

based on memoir or autobiography

single mother

teenage boy

law student

grandmother

appalachian

1990s

appalachian mountains

mother son relationship

traditional family

mother son estrangement

childhood memory

small town life

negative

absurd

hilarious