The Glass Castle

20172017
PG-13PG-13
2h 7m

Woody Harrelson and Brie Larson in The Glass Castle (2017)

Director Destin Daniel Cretton talks to IMDb about some of the choices he made in bringing Jeannette Walls' emotionally challenging journey to the big screen in 'The Glass Castle'

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Biography Drama

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hop... Read allA young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton
Writers
- Destin Daniel Cretton(screenplay by)
- Andrew Lanham(screenplay by)
- Jeannette Walls(based upon the book by)
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations

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Jeannette Walls: "Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts as Rex and Rose Mary profoundly understood the couple’s love-hate relationship. When they weren’t trying to kill each other, they were incredibly tender."

Jeannette Walls: "Talking to Josh Caras was a little weird because his eyes reminded me so much of Brian’s. So did his gestures and his laugh. Shree Crooks also seems so much like my kid sister that it was dazzling."

Jeannette Walls: "The cast spent a lot of time together and bonded like a family. The complex and nuanced emotions captured by Ella Anderson in some of those tough scenes blew me away. Sadie Sink also really got adolescent Lori’s sarcasm. I give a lot of credit for the amazing performances to Naomi Watts, who treated the young cast members like they were her own children."

Jeannette Walls: "The amazing production designer Sharon Seymour went to great lengths to create 93 Little Hobart Street and when I first went in, I gasped."

Jeannette Walls: “I don’t know how Woody Harrelson captured it, but Dad used to stand like that all the time. All of these characters are spot on. That looks so much like the way Mom would look and Sadie Sink completely nailed Lori at that age.”

Jeannette Walls: "Max did such a phenomenal job of making a character that could have been unsympathetic genuinely likable. His performance was so perfect. As for Brie Larson, she makes a better Jeannette Walls than I do."

Jeannette Walls: "I love the feeling of hope and despair when the Walls Family sees their new house."

Brie Larson, Josh Caras, and Sarah Snook in The Glass Castle (2017)

Brie Larson in The Glass Castle (2017)

Brie Larson and Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle (2017)

Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield, and Brie Larson in The Glass Castle (2017)

Destin Daniel Cretton in The Glass Castle (2017)

Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton
Writers
- Destin Daniel Cretton(screenplay by)
- Andrew Lanham(screenplay by)
- Jeannette Walls(based upon the book by)
All cast & crew
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Taglines
- Home goes wherever we go.
Genres
- Biography
- Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content involving family dysfunction, and for some language and smoking
Parents guide

Trivia
Jennifer Lawrence was attached to star and produce the movie for a long period of time but dropped out. Brie Larson was cast in the lead role after Lawrence dropped out.

Goofs
When Rex and Jeannette are looking at the stars in the middle of the night, she chooses one and he says it is Venus. Not possible because Venus is only seen in the early morning in the east, or early evening in the west. However this works well with Rex's character and perhaps not a goof but intended. Rex made up stuff all the time.

Quotes
Rex: I never built the glass castle.
Jeannette: No. But it was fun to plan it.

Connections
Featured in Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews: The Glass Castle (2017)

Soundtracks
Laugh, Cry, Sing, Sigh
Written by Bill Gordon
Performed by Bill Gordon Trio
Courtesy of Fervor Records

Top review

6/10

Not true to the book

This movie really bothered me. Rex Walls was not a misunderstood man whose demons excused the neglect and abuse he made his family suffer. He was a drunk con-artist who made his family suffer by not providing them with food or shelter. He was also an expert in conning his children into believing that he actually loved and cared about them. The Mom was not portrayed properly, she was equally complicit with the neglect and horrible childhood those children endured. The movie should have been about the children and how they somehow managed to thrive, not their horrible alcoholic father and lazy mother.

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Aug 6, 2018

Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $17,273,059
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,678,548
- Aug 13, 2017
Gross worldwide
- $22,088,533

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Runtime
2 hours 7 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Atmos
- Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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