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The Glass Castle (2017 Film)
''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. Depicting Walls' childhood, where her family lived in poverty and sometimes as squatters, the film stars Brie Larson as Walls, with Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield, and Sarah Snook in supporting roles. ''The Glass Castle'' was released on August 11, 2017, by Lionsgate and received mixed reviews from critics. They praised the performances of its cast, particularly Larson, but criticized the emotional tones and adaptation. The film grossed $22 million in North America. Plot As a child, Jeannette Walls lives a nomadic life with her painter mother Rose, her intelligent but irresponsible father Rex, older sister Lori, and younger brother Brian. While cooking unsupervised, Jeannette is severely burned. At the hospital, a doctor and social worker q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Destin Daniel Cretton
Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films ''Short Term 12'' (2013), ''The Glass Castle'' (2017), ''Just Mercy'' (2019) and the Marvel Studios film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021). He has also been tapped to direct Marvel Studios' '' Avengers: The Kang Dynasty'' (2025). Early life Cretton was born in 1978 in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui. He is of half-Japanese descent. He was home-schooled by his Christian mother. His sister Joy is a costume designer who has worked on several of Destin's projects. He lived in Haiku in a two-bedroom house with his five siblings, until he was 19 years old. He moved to San Diego, California to attend Point Loma Nazarene University, where he majored in communications. After graduating, Cretton worked for two years as a staff person at a group home for at-risk teenagers. He made short films as a hobby, which developed as a vocational path. He attended and graduated from film school at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb, which itself is owned by Amazon. History Brandon Gray began the site on August 7, 1998, making forecasts of the top-10 highest-grossing films in the United States for the following weekend. To compare his forecasts to the actual results, he started posting the weekend grosses and wrote a regular column with box-office analysis. In 1999, he started to post the Friday daily box-office grosses, sourced from Exhibitor Relations, so that they were publicly available online on Saturdays and posted the Sunday weekend estimates on Sundays. Along with the weekend grosses, he was publishing the daily grosses, release schedules, and other charts, such as all-time charts, international box-office charts, genre charts, and actor and director charts. The site gradually expanded to include weekend charts going b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Pingue
Joe Pingue is a Canadian actor and film maker. Early life Pingue was born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario. He attended Ridley College for both elementary and high school, and studied theatre at York University. While attending Ridley College, Pingue dreamed of playing Tight End for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL. Unfortunately, his lack of speed, hands, blocking skills and overall athletic ability prevented him from reaching that goal. Considered by many at the time to be the next Tony Danza, Pingue gave up his dreams of an NFL career for the business we call show. Career Giuseppe "Joe" Pingue is a Canadian character actor. He became known for playing supporting roles in many films such as ''Miss Sloane'', ''American Whiskey Bar'', ''Pompeii'', ''Antiviral'', ''The Boondock Saints'', ''Repo Men'', ''Blindness'', ''The Book of Eli'', ''Maps to the Stars'' and '' Dream House''. His television work includes appearances on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'', ''Orphan Black'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigette Lundy-Paine
Brigette Lundy-Paine (born August 10, 1994) is an American actor. They first came to prominence for portraying Casey Gardner on all four seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama ''Atypical'' (2017–2021). In 2020, Lundy-Paine achieved further recognition for playing Billie Logan, the daughter of Ted Logan, in the science fiction comedy film ''Bill & Ted Face the Music''. Personal life Born August 10, 1994, in Dallas, Texas, Brigette Lundy-Paine is the child of Laura Lundy and Robert Paine, who are both actors and directors, and has a younger brother. When Lundy-Paine was two years old, their family moved to Alameda, California. In 2012, they graduated from Encinal High School, where they were a cheerleader. They graduated from New York University in 2015. On November 8, 2019, Lundy-Paine came out as non-binary, going by they/them pronouns. They have also been involved as an activist, including participating in the Black Lives Matter movement. Career Lundy-Paine is known for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Shotwell
Charlie Shotwell (born July 17, 2007) is an American actor. He started acting professionally at the age of six. His first notable role being the young Nai Cash in the 2016 comedy-drama film ''Captain Fantastic (film), Captain Fantastic'' for which he received nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG Awards and Young Artist Awards. He was lead of the Netflix horror film ''Eli (2019 film), Eli'' and the coming-of-age psychological thriller ''John and the Hole'', and appeared in the comedy film ''Troop Zero''. Life and career Shotwell was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2015, Shotwell made his acting debut with the war-drama ''Man Down (film), Man Down'', playing the son of Shia LaBeouf and Kate Mara's character; Dito Montiel directed the film. He then starred as the youngest member of a survivalist left-wing philosophers' family in the Matt Ross directed comedy-drama ''Captain Fantastic (film), Captain Fantastic''. In 2017, Shotwell played the young Brian Walls in the Destin D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Armitage
Iain Armitage (; born July 15, 2008) is an American child actor. He is known for starring as Sheldon Cooper in ''Young Sheldon'', a prequel to ''The Big Bang Theory'', and Ziggy Chapman in '' Big Little Lies''. In 2018, Armitage received the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series Leading Young Actor for the former role. He also provided the voice for young Shaggy Rogers in ''Scoob!'' (2020), and for the police puppy Chase in '' PAW Patrol: The Movie'' (2021). Early life Armitage resides in Arlington, Virginia, and is the son of actor Euan Morton, who was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and theater producer Lee Armitage. It was reported that he was named after Sir Ian McKellen. He is the grandson of former United States Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Lee Armitage. Career 2010s Armitage first gained prominence via his YouTube series ''Iain Loves Theatre'' where he reviews stage shows from musical theater. His videos caught the attention of the theater industry, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadie Sink
Sadie Elizabeth Sink (born April 16, 2002) is an American actress. She began acting at age seven in local theater productions, and played the title role in '' Annie'' (2012–14) and young Queen Elizabeth II in '' The Audience'' (2015) on Broadway. She made her television debut in a 2013 episode of ''The Americans'' and her film debut in the sports film ''Chuck'' (2016). Sink had her breakthrough portraying Max Mayfield in the Netflix science fiction series ''Stranger Things'' (2017–present). In 2021, she appeared in the horror film trilogy ''Fear Street'' and played the lead role in Taylor Swift's short film ''All Too Well''. Sink has since starred in Darren Aronofsky's psychological drama ''The Whale'' (2022), for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Early life Sink was born in Brenham, Texas, on April 16, 2002. Her father is a football coach and her mother is a math teacher. She has three older brothers and a younger sister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Anderson
Ella Aiko Anderson (born March 26, 2005) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, starring as Piper Hart on the Nickelodeon television series '' Henry Danger'', and is also known for playing the role of Rachel Rawlings in the 2016 comedy adventure film '' The Boss''. Career Anderson began as a child actress, acting since she was five years old. She played Hazel in Disney Channel's ''A.N.T. Farm'' in 2011. She has also appeared in one episode of ''Raising Hope'', as a little girl who gets a needle stuck in her hand. She made further appearances on Disney shows in 2013, being in ''Dog with a Blog'' as Darcy Stewart and ''Liv and Maddie'' as Jenny Keene. In 2014, she played Mitzy in Nickelodeon's '' A Fairly Odd Summer''. Anderson has portrayed Piper Hart in the Nickelodeon television series '' Henry Danger'' from 2014-2020, and appeared in the film '' Unfinished Business''. She has played Rachel Rawlings in '' The Boss'', and Vicky in ''Mother's Day'', b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then-''Washington Post'' media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hustling
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing. It is most commonly associated with, and originated in pocket billiards (pool), but also can be performed with regard to other sports and gambling activities. Hustlers may also engage in ""—distracting, disheartening, enraging, or even threatening their opponents—to throw them off. Hustlers are thus often called "pool sharks". Professional and semi-pro hustlers sometimes work with a ""—a person who provides the money for the hustler to bet with (and who may assist in the hustling)—in exchange for a substantial portion of all winnings. Another form of hustling (often engaged in by the same hustlers who use the skill-disguising technique) is challenging (swindle targets) to bet on trick shots that seem n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welch, West Virginia
Welch is a city located in McDowell County in the State of West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,590 at the 2020 census, however the 2021 census estimate put the population at 1,914, due to the McDowell Prison complex in the northeast splitting from the city of Welch as part of unincorporated McDowell County. Incorporated as a city in 1893, it is the county seat of McDowell County. History Welch was incorporated in 1893 and named after Isaiah A. Welch, a former captain in the Confederate States Army who came to the region as a surveyor, and helped establish the plan for the beginning of a new town at the confluence of Tug Fork and Elkhorn Creek. Welch was made the county seat of McDowell County in an election by county citizens in 1892 even before Welch was incorporated as a city. The previous county seat was in Perryville (now English) on present day West Virginia Route 83 along the Dry Fork. Results of the election were contested, so to avoid violence county r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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