Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for The Glass Castle
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2017 · FILM

The Glass Castle

A resourceful teenage girl strives to forge her own future while navigating a nomadic, chaotic life with an eccentric, alcoholic father and a mother who refuses to settle, all as the law closes in on their ever‑shifting refuge.

“Find beauty in the struggle.”

Directed by
Destin Daniel Cretton
Written by
Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
127 min
BiographyDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family that is constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age under the guidance of her drunkard but ingenious father, who distracts her with magical stories to help her cope with their difficult circumstances.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nat SandersShot by Brett PawlakScored by Joel P WestDesigned by Sharon Seymour

Box Office

2017 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$22.1M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$22.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.3M — 78% of worldwide · International: $4.8M (22%)

Opening weekend: $4.7M — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.2M — 41% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,461 theaters

Also known as

  • Schloss aus Glasde
  • Le Château de verrefr
  • Il castello di vetroit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).