“Wisely tempers the built-in grim monotony by breaking the story into short vignettes”

- Mike Clark

“A movie that entails little more than two hours and 20 minutes of beautifully photographed rain, mud, blood, lice, vomit, dead babies, and whining”

- Owen Gleiberman

Angela’s Ashes

Film version of Frank McCourt’s critically acclaimed and best-selling memoir of growing up in poverty in mid-20th century Ireland. Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge, Shane Murray-Corcoran. Director: Alan Parker (1999, R)