Angela's Ashes

  • Drama
12/25/1999
145
R

The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.

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.

Director:
Alan Parker
Writers:
Laura Jones
Alan Parker
Revenue:
$13,042,112
Budget:
$50,000,000
  • 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
  • limerick
  • rainy setting

Videos

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
  • Devon Murray
    Middle Malachy
  • Peter Halpin
    Older Malachy
  • Frank Laverty
    Young Paddy Clohessy
  • James Mahon
    Middle Paddy Clohessy
  • Laurence Kinlan
    Older Paddy Clohessy
  • Des McAleer
    Mr. Benson

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