Deborah Ross

Like a never-ending episode of The Jerry Springer Show: Hillbilly Elegy reviewed

This should be a stirring account of achieving the American dream but you might not get past the fact that Glenn Close is the spit of Catherine Tate’s Nan

Glenn Close, the spit of Catherine Tate’s Nan, as Mamaw in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy. Credit: Lacey Terrell 
issue 21 November 2020

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