Four years ago, Ron Howard directed Amy Adams and Glenn Close in Netflix awards season movie Hillbilly Elegy.

Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by JD Vance, the 2020 film has seen its viewership on the streamer increase by 1179 per cent on Monday.

This comes after the author, whose biographical childhood story it is, was announced as Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate for the 2024 US election.

The four-year-old movie was watched for 1.5 million minutes on Sunday when Vance…