“You know, I thought I could be a normal woman, or a woman without a past,” said Jeannette Walls in a recent interview for “Inflection Point.” “I just wanted for once in my life to be defined by what ...

“I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.” That’s the unnerving first sentence of Jeannette Walls’ ...

Based on an unsparing, unprettified 2005 family memoir by former gossip columnist Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle arrives on the big screen slicked up and eager to sooth when it should be ready to ...

Cretton's adaptation of Jeanette Walls' memoir isn't groundbreaking, but Larson's soulful performance elevates an otherwise straightforward drama. Destin Daniel Cretton’s 2013 breakout drama “Short ...

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Back in 2005, Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir The Glass Castle wowed critics and readers with its unbelievable rags-to-riches story. It's no surprise Hollywood wanted to adapt it, as writing ...

To watch “The Glass Castle” is to feel trapped inside Jeanette Walls’ childhood. It is to feel at the mercy of a father who is brilliant and the source of all fun — a font of affection, wisdom and ...

Finding the right follow-up project after your indie breakout is a challenge for emerging filmmakers. Every breakout independent filmmaker faces the same challenge: Now what? You could stick to your ...

Perhaps there was some idea that this film could fill the so-called Help slot, a sappy movie version of a best-selling, female-skewing book that would be the antidote to months of stuff for the boys.

The Glass Castle is the kind of film which used to be more common but doesn’t appear so often anymore – at least to this extent of quality, profile and budget. ‘Based on a true story about a ...