Walls created a sensation when she wrote about her destitute and nomadic youth, a childhood of hunger and privation at the hands of a pair of idiosyncratic parents who shunned schools, authority, capitalism and regular bill payments. Unlike the book, it’s got Woody Harrelson and Brie Larson, acting spectacularly. Like the book, it looks back without pity or sentiment. “The Glass Castle ” is steeped in crazy love, but love nonetheless.īased on Jeannette Walls’ 2005 best-selling memoir, the film is both a tribute to parenting and a confessional of its absence. They should go see it instead as a much-needed reminder that you can mess up spectacularly with your kids and still manage to have them adore you. No, that might actually get you thrown in jail. Any parents of young children - or anyone thinking of hearing the pitter-patter of little feet - are urged to go to their local movie theater and see “The Glass Castle.” Not as a how-to guide, mind you.
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