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Angela's Ashes (1999)

Angela's Ashes (1999)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1999, December 25
Directors: Alan Parker
Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, David Brown Productions, David Brown Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Scott Rudin Productions, Scott Rudin Productions
Cast: Kerry Condon, Devon Murray, Emily Watson, Marcia DeBonis, Liam Carney, Oliver Maguire, Gerard McSorley, Jer O'Leary, Phil Kelly, Martin Benson, Robert Carlyle, Alvaro Lucchesi

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.

Keywords:

poverty 1930s famine alcoholism dead children brooklyn, new york city irish-american rain hunger based on memoir or autobiography alcoholic father socially deprived family ireland irish life in the slums drunkard emigration irish catholic rainy setting children in need limerick