Cracks showing in The Glass Castle
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DYSFUNCTIONAL doesn't begin to describe American journalist Jeannette Walls' family.
The Glass Castle is a family melodrama based on the renowned gossip columnist's 2005 bestselling memoir.
We learn that her charismatic hillbilly father Rex (Woody Harrelson) is an irresponsible dreamer-drunk. The nomadic clan lives off the grid, criss-crossing the country in their station wagon, fleeing debt collectors and the law, and eventually settling in the West Virginia backwoods where Rex promises to build them a solar-powered glass castle.
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