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The Glass Castle
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2676
- IMDb #2056
- Google retired #2631
- Rotten Tomatoes #3018
- Metacritic #3219
- Letterboxd #2739
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3641
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2602
- Metacritic Critics #2797
- Metacritic Audience #3710
- Kinopoisk #1889
- AlloCiné #1339
- Trakt #1616
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 53, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 54, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young woman achieves her dream of a successful life in New York City, but is haunted by her unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing. Her childhood was spent following her brilliant but alcoholic father and her artistic but unstable mother across the country. The film moves between her present and her past, exploring how her parents' choices both damaged and inspired her.
Details
- Director
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Writers
- Andrew Lanham, Destin Daniel Cretton
- Based on
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Released
- 11 August 2017
- Country
- Hong Kong, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $22.1M
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