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An Impoverished Irish Catholic Childhood - Alan Parker's Angela's Ashes
Young Frank McCourt (played in stages by Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, and Michael Legge) is living an impoverished youth. His family is so poor that they decide it’s best to leave America for a fresh start in even more-impoverished Ireland. As McCourt puts it, it’s tough enough to live life... Read full review »
Angela's Ashes: Nice try, but lacks the book's wit and humor
Whenever movie producers such as Mace Neufeld (The Hunt for Red October) or the triumvirate of Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne (The Lord of the Rings) announce that they are going to adapt a literary work for the silver screen, most of us say something like, “That’s... Read full review »
Life Is Not Beautiful In Ireland Either... Angela's Ashes
'Angela's Ashes' is the story of Frank McCourt's life. Not long ago I reviewed the book and could not imagine giving it anything but five stars. It is one of the best books (especially if we limit ourselves to biographies) I have ever read. The movie, however, is not completely simple in...
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Raised from the Ashes
The movie opens with the narrator, who represents the voice of author of the book "Angela's Ashes" Frank Mc Court, making the statement that "There's nothing worse than a miserable Irish childhood, except for a miserable Irish Catholic childhood." The rest of the movie is spent supporting that... Read full review »
Angela's Ashes - A Three Hanky Flick.
Angelas Ashes is one of those movies that can turn the brightest morning into a rain soaked failure of an afternoon. If you have recently contemplated taking your own life, I recommend to forgo this flick, and see something more uplifting, like Shindlers List.
Angela's Ashes...
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Life up in smoke, down the Limerick sewer
Hard-line tenement living in Ireland by a family which expands, contracts, expands again -- this is the story Frank McCourt tells of his life as a lad. Dad is a drunk, a theme which is woven ad infinitum through the film. Mom's children die and are buried, beginning with the infant Mary Margaret... Read full review »
Death, Religion, and Sex in Ireland
Alan Parker's photogenic adaptation of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize winning memoir is heavy on the misery and unfortunately light on the humor. It is undeniably a very close rendering of the novel, structurally and in terms of the key events of the plot, but so much of what lightened up the... Read full review »
Very Sad & not so long ago.
The story of Frank McCourt as he grows up. A very sad and harrowing lifestyle, which is full of tragedy and death. The story starts in America but things are so bad there that the McCourt family have to return to the mother country of Ireland which is in the middle of poverty. The father of the... Read full review »
From the ashes the movie rises
This is an awesome movie. Takes place in depression Ireland and tells the story of Frank McCourt as he grows up in shall we say less than optimal circumstances. If you want a visual poverty tour complete with depression as well as a few bright moments this is the movie for you. Uncork the Prozac or... Read full review »
pure misery
This movie, based on the beloved best-selling memoirs of Frank McCourt, is a miserable, joyless experience. While the actual story and book was heavy on the misery, the movie is devoid of any of the humor, sentiment and flow that the book was full of. Within the first 10 minutes of the film I found... Read full review »
Excellant don't miss it.
Angela's ashes is a remarkable story which makes you interested and grips you to the television screen. It is painstakingly sad with bereavement rife. This tragic tale of poverty opens your eyes and makes you realise how lucky you have it. It takes you back to see a young boy emptying his uncles... Read full review »
Angela's Ashes - A Movie Review
I highly recommend this movie to people who are interested in Protestant and Catholic Irish history. You will find yourself angry at the father's pathetic attempt to support his family - even though he always has time to support his drinking habit. At the very same time the directors have... Read full review »
FATHER , SON AND HOLY TOAST
The big draw here is the story, the true one written by Frank McCourt about his Irish Catholic Childhood. Did I find the movie entertaining? In all honesty, not really. It is depressing. However, the story as told by Frank has an honesty, and lyricism that is hard to resist.
So why would...
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Frank & Co. Rise Above the Ashes of Poverty
Frank and Co. Rise Above the Ashes of Poverty
"Angela's Ashes" was a movie I could understand well because I am an Irish Catholic myself. However, I was unprepared for the sadness of the story, because when I had read the book, Frank McCourt's wry humor had tempered the depressing...
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Tales of the poor and optimistic
Angela's ashes is a true story about a young boy, Frank Mccourt, and his trials of life. I ran across this movie on my satellite, and was just channel surfing and happened to stop on that channel. The movie was just beginning, and it had a lure to it, so even though I had to be at work early in the... Read full review »
A Miserable Irish Catholic Childhood Movie
Here?s a movie that wastes no time telling us what to expect for the next 145 minutes: Angela?s Ashes opens with a shot of a gray-lit, muddy alley pelted by rain. The narrator then breaks in with his lilting Irish brogue, warning us that this is the story of ?a miserable childhood?the happy... Read full review »
The Luck of the Irish
"Angela's Ashes" is a good movie, but not a very happy one. We get to observe the depressing lives of people in Ireland who are down on their luck, though much of it is self inflected.
Times are tough, and work is hard to find so Malachy McCourt (Robert Carlyle) takes his family from...
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Gritty Portrayal of Poverty
I would venture to say that most of us have not known the poverty and filth that is portrayed in this film about Frank McCourt's childhood. Also, we never think of the details of poverty and what it might entail. This film shows these gritty aspects in lurid detail and made me very appreciative of... Read full review »
Another movie about how much life can suck
This movie is a true story about the miserable life of an Irish kid born in depression Brooklyn, who moves to depression Ireland, where his life gets even worse. Just when you think he's suffered everything possible, something else bad happens to this kid. This is a good movie to watch if you're... Read full review »
It Needed to be Told
Despite everything I am about to say, I cannot say that I enjoyed this film. No more than most normal people could say that they enjoyed Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan. But along with those films Angela's Ashes is creating a new and growing list of films that are telling stories that are... Read full review »
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Release Date: 2000-12-05, Rating: R (Restricted)
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Angela's Ashes [VHS]
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film- DramaRating: RRelease Date: 12-MAR-2002Media Type: DVD
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