THE GLASS CASTLE: A BEST-SELLER COMES UP SHORT

The Glass Castle is a deeply-felt adaptation of journalist Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir about growing up with impoverished and irresponsible parents. The story is told piecemeal and in retrospect, with Brie Larson as the adult Jeannette, who has made a success of herself and turned her back on her mother and father. The challenge she faces is coming to terms with the fact that for all their quirks, and even cruelty, they always loved her. An emotional high-wire act like that is tough for any movie to take on, and the results are less than perfect. Larson does a fine job playing the sleek, uptight New York magazine columnist who’s about to marry a finance manager (Max Greenfield ). But with relatively little screen time, she is outshone…

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