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MPAA Rating - R

Length:
    145 Minutes

Genre:
    Drama

Original Release Date:
    Jul 18, 2000

Director
    Alan Parker

Cast
    Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge

 
Movie Summary
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angelas Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his parents Angela (Emily Watson) and Malachy (Robert Carlyle), who have been unable to support their family in America and are hoping for better prospects in their home country. But things hardly improve once they settle in Limerick; as McCourt puts it, Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Illness and death are commonplace in Limerick, and Malachys drinking and inability to hold a job make matters worse. Angelas Ashes was directed by Alan Parker, who previously looked at Irish life in The Commitments (1991); Laura Jones wrote the screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide


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