The Glass Castle

Home goes wherever we go.

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family’s dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

127 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Drama, On the art circuit

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A striking pose ...

Credits

Cast	Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson, Chandler Head, Max Greenfield
Director	Destin Daniel Cretton
Screenplay	Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham, from the book by Jeannette Walls
Music	Joel P. West
Cinematography	Brett Pawlak
Editing	Nat Sanders
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Times Media Films
Made in	2017
Produced by	Lionsgate, Netter Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Moderate, fairly infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Moderate impact, fairly frequent
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments	Contains scenes of sexual violence.
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USA MPAA rating

PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned	Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content involving family dysfunction, and for some language and smoking
Runtime	127
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 14 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Jamal-Dean Grootboom Fragile life in glass castle.	10
Die Burger Karla Janse van Vuuren Komplekse gesinsverhoudings roerend uitgebeeld.	10
24.com Mark Kennedy The Glass Castle is steeped in crazy love, but love nonetheless.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy While I was never bored, I was never as fully engaged as I likely should and could have been.	11
Metacritic.com 39 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 99 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Glass Castle has an affecting real-life story and a hard-working cast in its corner, but they aren’t enough to outweigh a fundamentally misguided approach to the material.	10
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Strong acting, intense themes in emotional book-based drama.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 19 users	12
Rottentomatoes users 5848 users	15
IMDB 1107 Netizens A Roller-coaster Experience in More Ways Than One	14
The Movie DB Community	6
Average .. 55%	11