The Glass Castle

Weekend Box Office: ‘Annabelle: Creation’ Scares Up a Mint
Weekend Box Office: ‘Annabelle: Creation’ Scares Up a Mint
Weekend Box Office: ‘Annabelle: Creation’ Scares Up a Mint
We’ve reached the doldrums of August, where studios release the titles not marketable enough for the summer movie season and not quality enough for serious award consideration. That means an odd mixture of horror films, formerly prestigious movies that have lost a little bit of their luster, and absolute junk just looking for a few screens to dominate for a couple of weeks. Oh, and what do you know? That perfectly describes this weekend’s new releases! Gee!
‘The Glass Castle’ Review: A Melodramatic Memoir With Brie Larson
‘The Glass Castle’ Review: A Melodramatic Memoir With Brie Larson
‘The Glass Castle’ Review: A Melodramatic Memoir With Brie Larson
Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 was one of the best movies of 2013, and remains one of the most surprising indie dramas of the past several years. It’s the film that finally put Brie Larson on the film industry’s radar, charting a path towards an eventual Oscar win. One of the greatest strengths of that film is how delicately it unpacks the day-to-day trauma and struggle of neglected teens living at a group home. With that in mind, Cretton’s latest film The Glass Castle sounded especially promising – an adaptation about a dysfunctional family told through the eyes of a young girl. Unfortunately The Glass Castle is nothing like Short Term 12, trading in nuance for glib storytelling while giving Larson little to do.
How Brie Larson Knew Woody Harrelson Was Right for ‘The Glass Castle’
How Brie Larson Knew Woody Harrelson Was Right for ‘The Glass Castle’
How Brie Larson Knew Woody Harrelson Was Right for ‘The Glass Castle’
In The Glass Castle, Woody Harrelson plays a man constantly living on the edge. His Rex Walls is an alcoholic father with good intentions but untraditional, even dangerous, parenting methods. In the film, Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Jeanette Walls’ New York Times best-selling memoir of the same name, Brie Larson portrays the adult version of the author as she reflects on her tumultuous childhood and complicated relationship with her father, Rex. It was only after Larson was trapped by a thunderstorm with Harrelson in real life, unsure if she was entirely safe or not, that the Oscar winner knew Harrelson was the right fit for the role.
Brie Larson Helps Out Parents in ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson Helps Out Parents in ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson Helps Out Parents in ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson’s The Glass Castle definitely looks like one of those awards-bait family drama movies that actors join up with when they really, really want to win an Oscar. But Larson has already won an Oscar, and keep in mind that this is from Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Short Term 12, the movie that effectively launched Larson’s leap to stardom.
Brie Larson’s ‘Glass Castle’ Adaptation Gets a Release Date
Brie Larson’s ‘Glass Castle’ Adaptation Gets a Release Date
Brie Larson’s ‘Glass Castle’ Adaptation Gets a Release Date
For my money, Rose Mary Walls is the worst mother in the whole of literature, and that includes Sophie Portnoy. A million-dollar heiress who refused her wealth because she believed it’d be good for her children to grow up in abject poverty with a profligate alcoholic, she put her daughter Jeannette through hell. Jeannette would later translate her tragic upbringing into the best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, which director Destin Daniel Cretton will soon translate once more onto the silver screen. And in addition to the first official still above, that film has inched closer to being by laying claim to a release date.