Genre: Film- 2018 release- currently available on Amazon
Grade: B+
Notable People: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton
Title: The Glass Castle
Review: I reviewed this autobiographical novel by Jeanette Walls a few months ago…and was eager to see the film adaptation…which was somewhat disappointing. A very complicated book that only moderately interpreted to film. The movie failed to capture the abject poverty and neglect the four kids were forced to endure…and seemed to sweeten things a bit too much for my taste. Woody does give a classic performance as the drunken, pie in the sky father, but Watts falls short as the completely narcissistic mother. Larson does a good job as the narrator daughter forced from age ten, to be the adult to three siblings as their parents drag them from sone squatter situation to another, always barely avoiding the authorities, across the country. I really hoped to like this movie more than I did.