Synopsis
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
- Brie LarsonJeannette Walls
- Woody HarrelsonRex Walls
- Naomi WattsRose Mary Walls
- Max GreenfieldDavid
- Sarah SnookLori Walls
- Ella AndersonJeannette Walls (Age 10)
- Sadie SinkLori Walls (Age 12)
- Robin BartlettErma Walls
- Chandler HeadJeannette Walls (Age 5 and 6)
- Iain ArmitageBrian Walls (Age 5)
Recommandations
- 90
New York Daily News
The Glass Castle is a family portrait that at its heart is a father-daughter movie, anchored by two outstanding actors. - 80
Time Out
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
San Francisco Chronicle
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
The Hollywood Reporter
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
IndieWire
Even when the the music swells and people talk through their problems to reach unremarkable conclusions, there’s an undercurrent of emotional authenticity. - 60
Variety
Cretton captures the incidents of Walls’ childhood (too many of them, to be honest, as the film really ought to be half an hour shorter), but struggles to connect them to the grown woman Larson plays in the present. - 60
Screen Daily
Brie Larson and Destin Daniel Cretton, star and director, respectively, of 2013 festival favourite Short Term 12, re-team for the affecting, if less intense and occasionally meandering drama of The Glass Castle. - 60
Village Voice
Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Walls’s book of the same name just often enough bursts to raucous life.
