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3/11/2021

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

Trashy family manages to produce a kid who makes it to Yale law school, mostly due to the determination of his grandmother. Since his mother's an addict, someone had to step in to make sure he got a chance. When his mother ODs, he's called back from school to help find her a rehab facility.

This is lazy sentimental pablum about an unremarkable family situation. I think you'd probably have a hard time finding an ivy league classroom without at least one scholarship kid who could tell stories similar and worse than this one. 

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