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AMY ADAMS BOARDS RON HOWARD’S “HILLBILLY ELEGY”

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  • Director: Academy Award Winner Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13)
  • Cast: Six-time Academy Award Nominee and two-time Golden Globe Winner Amy Adams (Vice, Sharp Objects, upcoming: Woman in the Window)
  • Writer: Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water) will adapt the screenplay based on the novel by J.D. Vance
  • Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Karen Lunder for Imagine Entertainment
  • Executive Producer: Julie Oh, J.D. Vance
  • Logline: Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, HILLBILLY ELEGY is a modern exploration of the American Dream and three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown.