{"id":2250613,"date":"2026-01-26T07:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250613"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:52:55","slug":"union-county-review-will-poulter-and-noah-centineo-integrate-seamlessly-with-a-cast-of-recovering-addicts-in-low-key-opioid-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/union-county-review-will-poulter-and-noah-centineo-integrate-seamlessly-with-a-cast-of-recovering-addicts-in-low-key-opioid-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Union County\u2019 Review: Will Poulter and Noah Centineo Integrate Seamlessly With a Cast of Recovering Addicts in Low-Key Opioid Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adam Meeks<\/a> studied film at NYU<\/a>\u2019s Tisch School for the Arts, where one can imagine the true-to-his-roots filmmaker learning alongside eclectic classmates. Manhattan must have felt like a stark break from the reality of rural Ohio, where Meeks grew up, but instead of abandoning his upbringing, the way so many do after moving to the big city, the writer-director honors what he left behind \u2014 and especially those struggling with the opioid epidemic back home \u2014 in his feature debut, \u201cUnion County<\/a>.\u201d The make-or-break ingredient turns out to be British actor Will Poulter<\/a>, whose immersive commitment dovetails beautifully with Meeks\u2019 unvarnished sensibility.<\/p>\n

Expanded from a 2020 short of the same name, Meeks\u2019 raw, honest movie fits neatly within a tradition of red-state escapees who remain committed to depicting the communities they know best with empathy and compassion (other examples include Nicole Riegel<\/a>\u2019s slice-of-life indie \u201cHoller<\/a>\u201d and J.D. Vance<\/a>\u2019s bestselling memoir…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Adam Meeks studied film at NYU\u2019s Tisch School for the Arts, where one can imagine the true-to-his-roots filmmaker learning alongside eclectic classmates. Manhattan must have felt like a stark break from the reality of rural Ohio, where Meeks grew up, but instead of abandoning his upbringing, the way so many do after moving to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Union-County-Review-Will-Poulter-and-Noah-Centineo-Integrate-Seamlessly.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250615,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250613\/revisions\/2250615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}