"But he has demons, and he is not fully able to battle his demons. He loves his daughter," Walls tells Bustle. In an interview with Bustle, Jeannette Walls says the heart of the book – and of the movie - has always been the tumultuous relationship between her and her troubled father, who died in 1994. The family bounces throughout the Southwest and Texas, and eventually land in Rex's hometown, Welch, W.VA., where much of the book and movie take place. With their four children in tow, Rex and Rose Mary move constantly – chasing their next adventure and the next paycheck. It's the story of Walls' dysfunctional, poverty-stricken childhood being raised by two unstable parents: the fiercely intelligent, charismatic Rex, an alcoholic who likely struggled with undiagnosed mental disorders, and Rose Mary, a painter who often prioritized her passion for art and adventure over her children. 11, and the memoir upon which it is based: Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle. It's a jarring scene, and an important one - one that perfectly encapsulates the emotional center of the forthcoming movie, out Aug.
It's "sink or swim" at its most extreme, but it worked: Jeannette is able to swim her way to safety. Gasping for breath, Jeannette emerges from the final plunge in tears, pulls herself out of the public pool, and runs away from her father.
In one of the first scenes of The Glass Castle, Rex Walls, played by Woody Harrelson, forcibly throws his daughter, who can't swim, into the deep end of a pool.
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