Budget $45 million

Box office $38,852

Hillbilly Elegy was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2020, before its streaming release on November 24, 2020, by Netflix, to a mostly negative reception. It received three nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director for Howard, Worst Screenplay for Taylor, and Worst Supporting Actress for Close

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Critical response to Hillbilly Elegy was “fairly negative”, but the performances of its cast received some praise. On Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of 251 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website’s critics consensus reads, “With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy strands some very fine actors in the not-so-deep South.” According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on 43 critics, the film received “generally unfavorable reviews”.However, it had quite favorable reviews from the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score having an 82% from 2500+ ratings.

The Independent reported that the film was widely criticized for “perpetuating stereotypes about the poor”. Katie Rife of The A.V. Club called it “bootstrapping poverty porn” and said that it “reinforces the stereotypes it’s meant to be illuminating.”