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"Hillbilly Elegy"
2024-09-12 14:00:00 2024-09-12 16:00:00 America/New_York Film Series: Join us for a screening of the 2020 film adaptation of JD Vance's 2016 memoir. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Thursday, September 12
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-12 14:00:00 2024-09-12 16:00:00 America/New_York Film Series: Join us for a screening of the 2020 film adaptation of JD Vance's 2016 memoir. Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library - Meeting Room

Join us for a screening of the 2020 film adaptation of JD Vance's 2016 memoir.

"Hillbilly Elegy"

The film is about JD Vance, the Appalachian values of his family from Kentucky, and the socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young. It was directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. Rated R 

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Movies & Film |

TAGS: | poverty | memoir | appalachia | alcoholism |

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