Ohio Senator JD Vance was nominated Monday for the Republican vice president position by former President Donald Trump, giving Vance and his bestselling book "Hillbilly Elegy" a renewed boost in ...

is the name of that movie." Hostin chimed in, "Well, now he's talking about childless cat ladies." Reviews at the time claimed the film "Hillbilly Elegy" fell short in depicting the working class.

Vance, who grew up in Jackson, Kentucky, and Middletown, Ohio, skyrocketed to fame as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy." The book later turned into a movie of the same name that was released in 2020.

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 ...

Though the actor previously had relatively positive experiences with Vance and his family while making "Hillbilly Elegy," the 2020 Ron Howard movie based on Vance's memoir of the same name ...

“Speaking of vice presidents — in 2020, you played J.D. Vance’s mamaw, his grandmother, in Hillbilly Elegy, and the movie was based on his bestselling memoir. I remember him hawking it in ...