![]() ![]() A rigged game, as Rex himself occasionally rants, and a shallow, treacly piece of work. The Glass Castle is a nonfiction memoir published in 2005 by the American journalist Jeannette Walls. The film is structured in such a way that you consent to an insidious balance: loathing and loving Rex before finally giving him the benefit of the doubt. Naomi Watts gets to play his dozy, feather-brained wife, and Larson plays his daughter Jeannette in disillusioned later years, an uptight and controlling career woman who has utterly rejected her dad’s anti-materialism in ways that are intended to suggest that maybe she’s kind of got it wrong and just needs to heal. She published a bestselling memoir, The Glass Castle, in 2005. ![]() Harrelson plays him as a life-affirming wildman, glamorised as a rebel that you hate for his cruelty but of course can’t help loving for his adorable passion. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she graduated with honors from Barnard College, the womens college affiliated with Columbia University. ![]() ![]() But his whisky and indiscipline keeps them hungry and confused and often in danger from stove hobs etc. He is Rex, a brilliant but feckless individual: free-thinker, scientist and engineer, entrancing his trusting and saucer-eyed children with his plans to build them a glass castle of his own design. The film is based on a bestselling 2005 memoir by US columnist and author Jeannette Walls, about her anarchic upbringing at the hands of an alcoholic, bipolar dad, who always kept his bewildered wife and kids on the move, one step ahead of the debt collectors, rattling all across the country. ![]()
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