Angela's Ashes (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Dec 25, 1999

Running Time: 145 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge, Ronnie Masterson, Pauline McLynn, Liam Carney, Eanna MacLiam, Andrew Bennet

director: Alan Parker

Angela's Ashes

In 1935, when it is more common for Irish families to leave their famine-stricken country for America, the impoverished McCourt family do the reverse. Following the sudden death of her 7-week-old daughter, Angela and her unemployable, alcoholic husband, Malachy Sr. set sail from New York Harbour to Cork with their four children- Frank, Malachy Jr. and twins Eugene and Oliver- to return to the land which mystified young Frank had only heard of as 'where there was no work and people were dying of starvation and the damp.'

The Irish have a long and proud history of storytelling, from earliest mythologies such as the heroic tales of Cu Chulainn and the Fenian and Ulster Cycles to the more modern writings of James Joyce and poet Seamus Heaney.

Here in the United States, readers embraced Frank McCourt's 1996 memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood, "Angela's Ashes," and turned it into a best seller.

Now screenwriter Laura Jones ("The Portrait of a Lady") and director Alan Parker ("Evita") have collaborated on…