People are dunking on JD Vance film ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ following announcement as Trump running mate

nme.com:

Donald Trump named J.D. Vance as his vice presidential pick for the 2024 election race, people have been piling in on the film version of Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.The 2020 drama film was based on Vance’s 2016 memoir of the same name.

Starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close, it told the story of the author’s journey from a disadvantaged Appalachian upbringing to a successful professional life.On Monday, Trump picked Vance, now the junior senator from Ohio, as his running mate for the upcoming election, despite the fact that Vance spent several years as one of the most outspoken critics of Trump in the Republican party.Even at the time of Hillbilly Elegy’s original release, it garnered a number of negative reviews, with many critics labelling its storytelling as “bland melodrama”, while its depiction of the Deep South was criticised for lapsing into stereotypes.

It currently sits on a 25 per cent score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.In a two-star review of the film, NME wrote: “It’s hard to imagine [director] Ron Howard having anything other than the best intentions when he took on this adaptation of J.D.

Vance’s bestselling 2016 memoir, published at a time when those depicted in it decided Donald J. Trump would be their best bet for an improved life.”“Perhaps he saw it as an opportunity to shine a light on an overlooked chunk of the population.