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Politically Sanitized 'Hillbilly Elegy' Movie Gets Poor Reviews
Newsbusters ^ | December 1, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/01/2020 12:56:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Director Ron Howard apparently had a problem with the rather inconvenient politics of J.D. Vance's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. His solution was to simply sanitize all politics out of the film version which according to most critics left it a rather lame movie. It will premiere on Netflix on November 24, but don't expect anything even close to, say, John Ford's Grapes of Wrath.

Even the Hollywood Reporter took note of this in their Monday review of the film by Rebecca Keegan in "'Hillbilly Elegy': Caught Between Hollywood and a Hard Place."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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To: Chode

The only movie that I’ve seen that her performing in is “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as Amelia Earhart.”


61 posted on 12/02/2020 5:01:03 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

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62 posted on 12/02/2020 5:25:10 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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