Led by her brilliant, eccentric and alcoholic father, Rex (Woody Harrelson), and her oil-painting mother, Rose Mary (Naomi Watts), Jeannette’s family spends her childhood on the move, hopping from home to home as Rex skips from job to job. This jarring juxtaposition is explained through a series of childhood flashbacks that weave in and out of Jeannette’s adult narrative, which has her struggling to reconcile her new lifestyle with her parents, who have been squatting in an abandoned building on New York’s Lower East Side ever since their children have relocated to the city.įrom the outset, it is clear why Jeannette’s childhood deserves consideration.
Then on the cab ride home, she and David pass her parents rooting through dumpsters on the city streets. Jeannette is a successful writer for New York Magazine and the picture of up-and-coming metropolitan success. We meet Jeannette (Brie Larson) in 1989, on a dinner date with her financial analyst fiancé, David (Max Greenfield), at a swank Manhattan restaurant.
It is one of the best films of 2017 so far. “THE GLASS CASTLE” - 4 stars - Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson, Max Greenfield PG-13 (mature thematic content involving family dysfunction, and for some language and smoking) in general releaseīased on the memoir by Jeannette Walls, “The Glass Castle” is the story of how a woman learned to love her family and pull the good from her unique and troubled childhood.
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