Based on the best-selling memoir written by Jeannette Walls, Oscar® winner Brie Larson (2015, Best Actress, Room) and Oscar® Nominee Woody Harrelson (2009, Best Supporting Actor,The Messenger) star in The Glass Castle, arriving on Digital HD October 24 and Blu-ray™ (plus Digital HD), DVD and On Demand November 7 from Lionsgate. Hailed as “one of the must-see movies of 2017” (Vanity Fair), The Glass Castle chronicles the adventures of a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads. From the producer of The Shack and The Blind Side, the film also stars Oscar® Nominee Naomi Watts (2012, Best Actress, The Impossible) and Golden Globe® Nominee Max Greenfield (2013, Best Supporting Actor – Television, “New Girl”).
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family, The Glass Castle is a remarkable story of unconditional love. Larson brings Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12) and written for the screen by Cretton & Andrew Lanham, The Glass Castle features all-new bonus content including a behind-the-scenes featurette and deleted scenes, and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.
BLU-RAY / DVD / DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES
- 9 Deleted Scenes
- The Glass Castle: Memoir to Movie
- A Conversation with Jeannette Walls
- Making of "Summer Storm" by Joel P West
- Scoring The Glass Castle
My Thoughts
The Glass House is the movie adaption of the best-selling memoir by Jeannette Walls. It takes us through her life with her nontraditional parents. Her mother is an artist and her father is an alcoholic who can't hold a job. The family moves from place to place, and often squats in deserted houses. At times her eccentric father is fun and amazing, at other times, he is cruel and angry. The children often go hungry, and Jeanette is even injured and scarred because of her parent's neglect. Throughout the trials of their life, the siblings in the family stick together and eventually move away. Jeanette finds herself living the exact opposite life her family lived. But a life of entitlement doesn't seem as wonderful as it once did, and Jeannette struggles to find s happy medium between the world of the rich and the uncertain world her parents raised her in.
This was an amazing, touching film. It really paints a picture of the constant struggle of living with an alcoholic. You feel the turmoil of loving the person, but knowing you need to walk away. In the end, Jeannette learns to embrace the best parts of her father and uses that as an inspiration in her work. I really enjoyed this film and the lessons that it teaches. I think it's destined to be a classic that will be enjoyed by countless generations to come.
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