A few weeks ago, in response to the release of Netflix’s adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy, the team at the Daily Yonder got together to make a list of some of our favorite rural-themed movies and shows. But since there are far more great rural stories than what we could fit in that original list, we asked you, our readers, to offer your recommendations.
Here are just a few of the suggestions that you’ve submitted so far. And be sure to keep your recommendations coming, using the form at the bottom of this article.
Winter’s Bone
“Faced with an unresponsive mother and a criminal father, Ozark teenager Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) does what she can to manage the household and take care of her two younger siblings. Informed by the sheriff (Garret Dillahunt) that their father put their home up for bond and then disappeared, Ree sets out on a dangerous quest to find him. Her entire family’s fate now in her hands, Ree challenges her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risks her life to learn her father’s fate.”