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The Glass Castle is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Cretton, Andrew Lanham, and Marti Noxon.It is based on Jeannette Walls' 2005 best-selling memoir of the same name.
The Glass Castle has also been the subject of public criticism, most notably in high school English classes. [25] [26] [27] According to the American Library Association, The Glass Castle was the seventeenth most banned and challenged book in the United States 2010 and 2019 [28] and the ninth most challenged book in 2012. [29]
Walls was born on April 21, 1960, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Rex Walls and Rose Mary Walls.Walls has two sisters, Lori and Maureen, and one brother, Brian. [2] Walls' family life was rootless, with the family shuttling from Phoenix to California (including a brief stay in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco), to Battle Mountain, Nevada, and to Welch, West Virginia, with periods of homelessness.
"The Glass Castle" was No. 9 on the American Library Association's Top 10 challenged books in 2012, for the reasons of "offensive language" and for being "sexually explicit," Garcia said.
Half Broke Horses is the story of Lily Casey Smith's life. Author Jeannette Walls, the granddaughter of Lily Casey Smith, wrote the book from Lily's perspective. As a child growing up on the frontier in Texas, Lily learns how to break horses.
Glass is a 2019 American superhero thriller film [7] written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is a crossover and sequel to Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable (2000) and Split (2016) and the third and final installment in the Unbreakable trilogy . [ 8 ]
The Glass Castle (French: Le Château de verre) is a 1950 French romantic drama film directed by René Clément who co-wrote the screenplay with Gian Bistolfi and Pierre Bost, based on the 1935 novel Das große Einmaleins by Vicki Baum.
The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by Paul Newman. It is a replication of a production of Tennessee Williams ' 1944 play of the same title that originated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and then transferred to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut . [ 3 ]