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| Release Date: |
December 25, 1999 (Limited)
January 21, 2000 (Moderate) |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Running Time: |
145 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexual content and some language. |
| Director: |
Alan Parker |
| Writer: |
Alan Parker, Laura Jones, Frank McCourt |
| Cast: |
Andrew Bennett, Eanna MacLIam, Liam Carney, Pauline McLynn, Shane Murray-Corcoran, Michael Legge, Ciaran Owens, Joe Breen, Robert Carlyle, Emily Watson |
Frank McCourt moved back to Ireland when he was very young and was subjected to a life of poverty and misery. As he grew up, he yearned to return to America. His life is complicated by his unemployable, alcoholic dad. Read more
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Movie Review
Grade: B+
I have never read Frank McCourt's novel nor will I ever, but as a movie, Angela's Ashes is an easy tale to watch. The tale is McCourt's life and how he and his family deal with a dad that doesn't provide and miserable living conditions that are hardly suitable for humans to stay in. It is also about Frank trying to earn enough money to come to America, the home he left when he was younger. Read the full movie review
User Comments & Reviews
Angela's Ashes, Et al, by Frank McCourt
August 7, 2006
You saw the movie but you would never read the book? What kind of asinine statement is that? The book is so much better than the movie was. But, of course, we in North America live in a society that only wants instant gratification. Frank McCourt's books made me laugh out loud. His book "'Tis" made me laugh until my belly was actually sore. Yes, Angela's Ashes is an extremely sad story, but it is also a first-hand account of the ills which befall a country where the Roman Catholic Church has such a stranglehold over its populace. Frank made me hope with every fiber of my being that on the Judgment Day, the true God will make those bastards, the Catholic clergy, pay for the extreme cruelty and poverty that existed in Ireland when Frank was a child. That a mother should have to beg in the streets is an atrocity - no matter what century or decade. I love Frank McCourt, and I was moved by his written word more profoundly that I can possibly explain, probably because my childhood was not the greatest either. Frank is wrong about one thing, though. There ARE worse childhoods than the one he had because I lived it.
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