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Angela's Ashes
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.
1999 · Directed by Alan Parker · 145 min · Drama · 8 frames
Tagline
The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.
Crew
- Screenplay: Laura Jones, Alan Parker
- Cinematography: Michael Seresin, Chris Connier
- Edited by: Gerry Hambling
- Music: John Williams
- Production design: Geoffrey Kirkland
- Produced by: David Brown, Alan Parker, Scott Rudin
Cast
- Emily Watson as Angela McCourt
- Robert Carlyle as Malachy McCourt
- Joe Breen as Young Frank
- Michael Legge as Older Frank
- Ciarán Owens as Middle Frank
- Ronnie Masterson as Grandma Sheehan
- Pauline McLynn as Aunt Aggie
- Liam Carney as Uncle Pa Keating
- Eanna MacLiam as Uncle Pat
- Shane Murray-Corcoran as Young Malachy
Production
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, David Brown Productions
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $13,042,112
- Themes: emigration, irish-american, hunger, socially deprived family, rain, famine, alcoholism, poverty, based on memoir or autobiography, ireland
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