Positioned as a from-the-trenches commentary on “economic anxiety,” Ron Howard’s adaptation of J.D. Vance’s bestseller is just another tired, flavorless addiction melodrama.
Ron Howard teams with Amy Adams for "Hillbilly Elegy," a Netflix drama about a Yale law student (Gabriel Basso) who drawn back to his hometown and grapples with family history, Appalachian values, and the Amer...