Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Rich Hill: Three Boys in Small Town America

Director: Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos
Run time: 91 min.

Call number:  HV1437.R535 R53 2014


"The brutally sparse documentary 'Rich Hill' removes poverty from the realm of the abstract and makes it personal, closely chronicling the lives of three teenage boys—Andrew, Harley and Appachey—as they navigate adolescence in their impoverished (and cruelly named) Missouri town. . . . Rich Hill looks like a thousand other poor rural towns peppered across America — desolate landscapes, ramshackle houses, roads lined with fast-food restaurants and pawn shops. It's a town thin on resources and diversions and, even more importantly, jobs."
Barbara VanDenburgh, The Arizona Republic