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Based on the bestselling memoir by J.D. Vance, about growing up in an Appalachian family and graduating from Yale while grappling with his mother's (Amy Adams) drug addiction, inability to form stable relationships, dysfunctional entanglements, abrupt personality shifts, cruelty and frequent violent outbreaks. Some stability is provided by his grandmother (Glenn Close), who urges him to do well in school and protects him from domestic abuse. Also with Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Gabriel Basso, Sunny Mabrey, Bo Hopkins and Owen Asztalos. Directed by Ron Howard. [Running Time: 1:56 . . .

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