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Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 film adaptation of J.D Vance's 2016 memoir of the same name. Since the release of the film adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance has become increasingly involved in politics, culminating in him becoming Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election.
The film was directed by Ron Howard and given a limited theatrical release on November 11, 2020. Netflix has the distribution rights to the film and released it exclusively on their streaming service on November 20.
Hillbilly Elegy is a fictionalized take based on J.D. Vance's account of his own early life, focusing primarily on his mother, Beverly "Bev" Vance, played by Amy Adams, and Bonnie "Mawmaw" Vance, played by Glenn Close.
It is set in J.D Vance's childhood home of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother and grandmother migrated from Jackson, Kentucky.
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Hillbilly Elegy is based on J.D. Vance's memoir
The Hillbilly Elegy movie is an adaptation of J.D Vance's memoir, which he wrote based on his life experiences growing up in Middletown, Ohio. The story follows J.D. Vance's mother and his grandparents as they move to Middletown from Jackson, Kentucky.
J.D. Vance's mother, Beverly Vance, is portrayed as a drug addict who struggles to provide a stable upbringing to J.D. and his older sister, Lindsay. One day, J.D. has a falling out with his mother while she's driving, causing her to crash her car on purpose.
A terrified J.D. tries to run to a nearby house to hide from her, and Beverly is nearly arrested when she tries to break down the door to get to him, only for J.D to cover for her.
J.D's grandparents, Mawmaw and Pawpaw Vance, struggle to manage Beverly's behavior, and Pawpaw Vance eventually dies. Beverly Vance loses her job after trying to steal pills from the workplace, causing her to have a public meltdown.
Beverly later marries her boss from a new job but still remains an addict, and J.D. at one point fakes her urine test so she keeps her job. After J.D.'s grandmother, Mawmaw gets hospitalized for pneumonia, J.D. Vance becomes a delinquent and engages in substance abuse, vandalism, and shoplifting.
J.D.'s sister Lindsay informs Mawmaw about this, and she subsequently discharges herself to take custody of J.D. and raise him in place of his mother. She gives him a talking-to after he's caught stealing a graphing calculator to use in school.
She hammers in the importance of taking responsibility because she's not long for this world, and given his mother's issues, he needs to learn how to take charge of his own life.
J.D. takes her words to heart and does a lot better at school while supporting himself with a job. He later enlists in the US Marine Corps, and after his Mawmaw passes away, he gets deployed in the Iraq War.
J.D. aspires to study at Yale Law School and takes on three jobs to pay his way through college. While applying for a summer internship, his plans are thrown for a loop when his sister Lindsay informs him that his mother's overdosed on heroin.
He struggles to get his mother to join rehab and runs the risk of missing his job interview date. When her mother's kicked out by her boyfriend thanks to her addiction, J.D. takes her to a motel, only to catch her using again in the bathroom.
He wrestles the needle away from her and tells her to take charge of her own life instead of succumbing to her addictions over and over again, and leaves her with Lindsay.
J.D. then goes on a long drive to his interview location, and talks to his girlfriend, Usha, on his journey. Somehow, he makes it in time.
The epilogue of Hillbilly Elegy shows that J.D. Vance eventually married Usha and had children with her and that his mother eventually overcame her drug addiction.
J.D. Vance published Hillbilly Elegy to give the American people an insight into Hillbilly culture and express his own understanding of the struggles faced by the American common man.
He was originally critical of Donald Trump and considered him a cautionary tale of America's decline. However, As J.D. Vance got deeper into politics, he recanted his criticisms and became an ardent Trump supported, culminating in him securing the Vice President nomination for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential run.
