The highly anticipated film adaptation of J.D. Vance's memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' has its first star: six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams.
Amy Adams arrives for the 91st Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Feb. 24.
Vance's"Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis" became a breakout bestseller shortly after its release in 2016. The memoir tells the story of Vance's family in Middletown, Ohio, and their struggles with poverty, alcoholism and abuse. that is at once stereotyped and mythologized. If read alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates' 'Between the World and Me,' a black father's profound meditation on the racism that may engulf his son, the two would present portraits of the most bitter and volatile forces at play in America today."
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