Hillbilly Elegy
Movie • 2020 • Drama
ReportBased on on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, the pic is a modern exploration of the American Dream and follows three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown.
This movie contains 17 potentially triggering events.
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A mother beats up her son after speeding while driving and nearly killing both of them. She later hits her daughter.
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Puppy is yelled at in one scene, later we learn he was given away because someone in the house has an allergy
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Are there spiders?
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Maybe? There's a close-up of a bug that is spidery-looking within the first minute of the film. I didn't see the rest of the film.
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Is someone burned alive?
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They don't die though, they get lit on fire and get put out quickly
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SPOILER: Papaw dies, and later Mamaw.
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Gross
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no, but *spoilers* mamaw gets pneumonia and has a triggering coughing scene, and there’s a scene where teenage J.D. is drunk with his friends, and one of them talks about his pregnant gf and says p*ke
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a character mentions having attempted suicide; a character is shown in mental health crisis with a bleeding wrist/hand
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Some shaky cam on driving scene
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Are there fat jokes?
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an abusive parent calls their child fat
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Sexual language only. One character mentions oral sex.
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Minor, a character injures her hand
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