
Hillbilly Elegy(2020)
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.


“Sometimes love is not enough.”
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Kyra Sedgwick
Emily

Dominic Scott Kay
Paul (6 years old)

Kevin Bacon
Marty

Blair Brown
Jeanette Rawley

Matt Dillon
Mark

Oliver Platt
Mr. Pomeroy

Campbell Scott
Paul's Father

Marisa Tomei
Sybil

Sosie Bacon
Emily (10 years old)

Travis Bacon
Lenny
Loverboy is a drama, romance film released in 2005 exploring themes of flashback, single mother, trying to get pregnant, mother and son, childhood memory. Directed by Kevin Bacon, it stars Kyra Sedgwick, Dominic Scott Kay, Kevin Bacon. A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
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