The story of three teenage boys coming of age in a rural Missouri town, Rich Hill was shot over a span of years, and the intimate connection the subjects have with the filmmakers, cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo, is discernible. The result is an immersive, moving, and often-unsettling, peek into the lives of kids whose hopes and dreams are continually compromised by isolation, poverty, and instability. Andrew remains steadily optimistic even though his dad’s search for work means that he frequently has to change schools. Harley, who’s living with his grandmother while his mom is in prison, is quick to joke, but he’s sitting on a well of anger that he’s only beginning to apprehend. Appachey, who also struggles with his temper, inhabits one of the film’s most poignant moments as he waits outside juvenile court holding tightly to his mother’s hand with a revealing vulnerability that all three boys share. Though the film is set in one once-vibrant coal-mining community, its stories are both familiar and universal.  RS