Rich Hill

Name: Rich Hill
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Documentary
Released: August 1, 2014
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 75

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| Release Date: August 1, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.

Director: Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Michael O'Sullivan

Aug 21, 2014

Rich Hill doesn’t just make you feel like you know these boys; it makes you care about them. Read full review

The Playlist Katie Walsh

Feb 3, 2014

A truly moving and edifying film, Rich Hill is the type of media object that could and should be put in a time capsule for future generations. Read full review

Ty Burr

Aug 14, 2014

Rich Hill might fairly be called “Boyhood: The Documentary,” and, not surprisingly, it offers a reality harsher than — if just as compassionate as — Richard Linklater’s dreamy time-lapse drama. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jan 28, 2014

Everything about the three principal teens registers as deserving of “human interest” to Rich Hill’s two helmers, whose generous attitude draws us into this deeply empathetic film. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Jul 31, 2014

Inside these average American lives are futures far too often passed over or, worse, written off. This terrific film gives the teenagers their due. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Aug 21, 2014

The confluence of poverty, dysfunctional parenting and poor educational prospects makes the oft-idealized small-town life look like an incubator for failure, no matter how high and spectacular the Fourth of July fireworks fly. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jul 29, 2014

Rich Hill is poverty porn, examining lower-class spaces with pity as its operative mode and engendering little more than a means for viewers to leave the film acknowledging its sadness. Read full review

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