In “The Glass Castle,” based on Jeannette Walls’ best-selling memoir, Brie Larson plays the protagonist Jeannette, a successful magazine writer in New York. Like the book, the film is largely a flashback to her girlhood, when the family was often homeless and hungry, and to her relationship with her charming, brilliant, alcoholic father. During a visit to the movie set, Ms. Walls watched a scene in which Jeannette leaves home for New York and her father, played by Woody Harrelson, pleads with her to stay. Walls was...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 31, 2017 15:53 UTC