Angela's Ashes (1999)
15
13/01/2000 (GB)
Drama
2h 25m
- 73% (333 votes)
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The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.
Overview
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
- Alan ParkerDirector, Screenplay
- Laura JonesScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$50,000,000
Revenue
$13,042,112
Keywords
- emigration
- irish-american
- hunger
- socially deprived family
- rain
- famine
- alcoholism
- poverty
- based on memoir or autobiography
- ireland
- brooklyn, new york city
- alcoholic father
- dead children
- irish catholic
- 1930s
- life in the slums
- drunkard
- children in need
- irish
- limerick
- rainy setting
Top Billed Cast
Emily Watson
Angela McCourt
Robert Carlyle
Malachy McCourt
Joe Breen
Young Frank
Michael Legge
Older Frank
Ciarán Owens
Middle Frank
Ronnie Masterson
Grandma Sheehan
Pauline McLynn
Aunt Aggie
Liam Carney
Uncle Pa Keating
Eanna MacLiam
Uncle Pat
Shane Murray-Corcoran
Young Malachy
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