Even Amy Adams says it's fine.

Ron Howard is thanking fans for making his new Netflix movie a success.

This is where you might recognize the established cast of Ron Howard's Netflix drama.

Glenn Close and Amy Adams shine in Ron Howard's new, rather unfocused film about abuse, poverty, and addiction.

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The reviews for Ron Howard's potential awards contender are a little surprising.

J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy became a talking point among the commentariat following Trump’s election in 2016 to try and explain the Republican nominee’s success in the Rust Belt. The memoir basically highlighted a certain kind of attitude among poor white people who had been “forgotten” and were facing “economic anxiety.” That’s not really rooted in fact (we have actual data that a Trump voter is more likely to be a divorced dad who owns a Kia dealership than a single mom struggling with drug addiction, hence all the stupid boat parades these past year), …

Netflix has released the trailer for Ron Howard’s adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy. Based on the memoir by J.D. Vance, the film chronicles his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams) and how he was raised by his resilient grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close). To be blunt, I don’t think Ron Howard is a particularly good director. There are some flashes along the way like Apollo 13 and Rush, but most of the time he never finds the emotional throughline and creates a forgettable product. He won his Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, and no one really talks …

Filmmaker Chloé Zhao is a magician. I don’t use that word to imply that her writing, directing, and editing doesn’t take great effort or that it’s a cheap trick. When I call her “a magician”, it means that the way she’s able to capture humanity without it ever feeling cheap, sentimental, or maudlin, is nothing short of magic. I’m a deeply introverted person who loves my material possessions, and yet her new film Nomadland tempted me into throwing it all away and hitting the open road to converse with fellow nomads. Zhao does this not …

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Fresh off her seventh Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win for The Wife, Glenn Close has signed on to join Amy Adams in Ron Howard's Netflix drama Hillbilly Elegy, Collider has learned. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water) is adapting J.D. Vance's bestselling memoir, whicih saw a family crisis force the former Marine-turned-Yale law school student to return to the home in southern Ohio that he tried so hard to forget. While there, he must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (…

J.D. Vance's controversial memoir Hillbilly Elegy is getting a Netflix adaptation, with Ron Howard directing. Imagine Entertainment started the process in 2017, getting Oscar nominee Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water) to pen the script. The New Republic called the book "a kind of Rosetta Stone for blue America to interpret that most mysterious of species: the economically precarious white voter," tying it to the media's obsession with Trump supporters. Former Congressional candidate Betsy Rader wrote a piece for the Washington Post called "I was born in poverty in Appalachia. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ doesn’t speak for me." …