The Glass Castle (2017)

Release date: 2017-08-11
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Production Co: Lionsgate, Netter Productions
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rating: 7.1/10
Length: 2h 7min

Storyline

A young woman reflects on her unconventional upbringing at the hands of her artsy, nonconformist parents, which sometimes resulted in the family living in poverty. Now married to a man who works in finance in New York, she faces criticism from her parents that she's betrayed their values..

Plot Keywords

restaurant, female stockinged leg, regret, gambling, illness, writer, child abuse, writing, pride, engineer, funeral, alcoholic, hospital, painting, hut, shack, paint, axe, pick axe, waiting

Short Review

Woody Harrelson gives a performance of borderline unwatchable hamminess in this really tiresome film, which sentimentally neutralises parental abuse into a supposedly fascinating angel/devil split.