American Hollow (1999)
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.
- Date of release
- 1999-05-26
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Rory Kennedy
Casting
- Bascum Bowling — Self
- Clint Bowling — Self
- Edgar Bowling — Self
- Iree Bowling — Self
- Samantha Bowling — Self
Interesting facts
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. An accompanying novel, also titled American Hollow was also released alongside the film in 1999. It was authored by Rory Kennedy.
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