Budget $45 million
Box office $38,852
Hillbilly Elegy was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2020, before its streaming release on November 24, 2020, by Netflix, to a mostly negative reception. It received three nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director for Howard, Worst Screenplay for Taylor, and Worst Supporting Actress for Close
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Critical response to Hillbilly Elegy was "fairly negative", but the performances of its cast received some praise. On Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of 251 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy strands some very fine actors in the not-so-deep South." According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on 43 critics, the film received "generally unfavorable reviews".However, it had quite favorable reviews from the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score having an 82% from 2500+ ratings.
The Independent reported that the film was widely criticized for "perpetuating stereotypes about the poor". Katie Rife of The A.V. Club called it "bootstrapping poverty porn" and said that it "reinforces the stereotypes it's meant to be illuminating."
garbage movie. couldn't even watch it.
it's so funny that libs absolutely loved the book, which basically just called poor people lazy and fucked up and stupid.
Libs looking for a reason Trump won in 2016 eating up an explanation by a conservative
Things that make you go hmmm
Promises crucial insight into Appalachian America that everyone’s missing
is just the usual “they won’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps” pablum
We could’ve just given Amy Adams an Oscar for Arrival like she deserved and this movie wouldn’t have to exist
It was a Netflix streaming movie. It was only released into theaters right after the election so it could be nominated for Oscars.
features the only actor in a role to be nominated for both best supporting actress oscar and worst supporting actress razzie
I’m amazed they topped Crash (2004). But it’s also for the same people.
I dl'ed this when it came out. There's a part where he doesn't know how forks work because woke and he has to use his phone-a-friend lifeline. hopefully someone makes a meme out of it. where the crawdads sing was a better movie
Where the crawdads sing was a waaaaay better movie
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When we got to the end and she reveals she did kill the guy my partner and I cheered
One of the recent Beep Beep Lettuce episodes was named Hillbilly Skibidi and now I hear that every time when this comes up
Just torrented it. There were some horribly cringe moments where I had to pause it and step away for a bit.
Like at one point they pretended like weed was some sort of terrible drug. And this is in a movie where opiate addition is a major part of the plot.
Lots of other unironic narratives where you're just like, "who wrote this bullshit"? Pretty awful rag
some gumshoe super sleuth needs to investigate Netflix because there's gotta be some funny money laundering thing going on behind the scenes
