Hillbilly Elegy .

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#HillbillyElegy

The much-awaited peel-back-the-curtain all-is-revealed look-at-how-the-other-half-live deep-dive into the scourge of Appalachian opioid addiction…in Ohio?! Wha?! 😲

Okay, so that was unexpected, as was the fact that movie isn't quite the crime against cinema that all those snooty movie reviewers would have you believe. It's a well-made, never-boring film that manages to come up with a happy ending…basically a Ron Howard 😃

Great work by the cinematographer(all those nicely saturated, natural-looking daylight cinematography…what a novel concept!), and, of course, Close and Adams, who turn in #Oscars-attention-worthy work(again), and sadly will be snubbed(again!).

But, gotta say, Bennett stole the whole show, even if she was given the least to do out of the quartet. Kid was a much-touted prospect coming out of the "minors" but it seems like she hasn't been given too many high-profile at-bats in the "big" leagues, but has been steadily working, putting up good, productive "numbers"…okay, fiiiiine, I'll stop, my knowledge of béisbol(🙏Duolingo!) only goes so far…in any case, she's terrific, and while our conquering hero goes off to the Ivy Leagues and becomes a venture capitalist/hedge fund media-darling bigshot(ya know, the aforementioned happy ending), she's the one left behind having to deal with…well, I guess we'll have to wait for her book to find out…

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#RonHoward #MaryseAlberti #HansZimmer(the man can, and does, do *every*thing!)
#GlennClose #AmyAdams #HaleyBennett #GabrielBasso #FreidaPinto(good to see her in something high profile again👍!)
@netflix

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