Storyline
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
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Cast
Woody Harrelson, Andrew Shaver, Tyrone Benskin, Naomi Watts, Joe Pingue, Brie Larson, Ella Anderson, Dominic Bogart, Chris Gillett, Max Greenfield, Sarah Snook, Philippe Hartmann, Nathaly Thibault, Chandler Head, Darrin Baker, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, Josh Caras, Sadie Sink, Iain Armitage, Olivia Kate Rice, Charlie Stowell, Charlie Guyon, Noemie Guyon, Eden Grace Redfield, Alanna Bale, Kyra Harper, Hamza Haq, Kenny Wong, Sabrina Campilii, Samantha Hodhod, Tessa Mossey, Sarah Camacho
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Reviews
90
The Glass Castle is a family portrait that at its heart is a father-daughter movie, anchored by two outstanding actors.
80
The richly built The Glass Castle—splendidly attentive to the details of the Walls's eclectic childhood home and elevated by Ella Anderson's performance as a young Jeannette—is on the overlong side, but it does right by a tough true story that begs neither contempt nor pity.
75
Still the spectacle of this, of beautiful, sensitive children at the mercy of damaged adults — this is what we take from The Glass Castle. It’s a universal awfulness rendered with truth and detail, and somehow that’s enough.
70
Even while gesturing toward a redemptive sacred altar, a default mode for parenthood in many mainstream movies, the director lets the messy realities stand. And his fine cast makes them ring true — the selfishness and neglect, the confrontations brutal and tender, the pained silences and, not least, the gusts of pure, jagged joy.
67
Even when the the music swells and people talk through their problems to reach unremarkable conclusions, there’s an undercurrent of emotional authenticity.
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