American Hollow (1999)
1h 30m
Running Time
May 26, 1999Release Date
Plot.
This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 children, but only two have left to seek better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started their own impoverished families near home. Uneducated and unskilled, all are unemployed, and domestic violence and alcoholism pose serious problems. The filmmakers explore the family's relationships through interviews and footage of their daily lives.
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Cast & Crew.
Bascum Bowling
Self
Clint Bowling
Self
Edgar Bowling
Self
Iree Bowling
Self
Samantha Bowling
Self
Rory Kennedy
Director
Bill Frisell
Original Music Composer
Mark Bailey
Writer
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
woman director
domestic violence
alcoholism
poverty
kentucky
appalachia
Wiki.
American Hollow is a 1999 American documentary film directed and produced by Rory Kennedy. The film follows the extended Bowling family, residents of an eastern Kentucky valley, for a year in Perry County, Kentucky. The music for the film was composed by Bill Frisell.Iree Bowling died at the age of 81 in December 2010.
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