The Glass Castle
2017 · Movie · PG-13 · 127 min · ★ 7.1 · 55% critics
A young girl grows up in a dysfunctional household that’s constantly on the move, trying to survive poverty while being shadowed by law enforcement pressure. As her ingenious, troubled father spins imaginative stories and her mother struggles with her own priorities, the siblings cling to each other and grow up in an unorthodox family journey.
Based on The Glass Castle
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-08-11
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 55/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (900 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this heartfelt drama if you like raw, family-focused coming-of-age stories about hardship and staying together; Not for you if dark, difficult material upsets you, or if you want a closer match to The Glass Castle book or prefer more upbeat picks like The Shack.
Pros: emotional family survival; strong acting performances; inspiring resilience | Cons: poverty portrayed harshly; some pacing drag; diverges from book
Themes
- dysfunctional family
- based on memoir or autobiography
- aggressive
- complex
- father daughter relationship
- sentimental
- complicated
- familiar
Cast & crew
Brie Larson
as Jeannette Walls
Woody Harrelson
as Rex Walls
Naomi Watts
as Rose Mary Walls
Max Greenfield
as David
Sarah Snook
as Lori Walls
Ella Anderson
as Jeannette Walls (Age 10)
Sadie Sink
as Lori Walls (Age 12)
Robin Bartlett
as Erma Walls
Chandler Head
as Jeannette Walls (Age 5 and 6)
Iain Armitage
as Brian Walls (Age 5)
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton