Angela's Ashes (1999)
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: col 145m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Synopsis:
From Brooklyn to Limerick, the son of a resourceful mother and ne-er-do-well Da survives disease, damp and malnutrition to become the writer of his own story.
Review:
Familiar tale of poverty, drunkenness and child mortality, leavened by doses of Irish humour and sentiment. The scope of the enterprise is self-defeating, and it is somehow easier to overlook the gap between hyperbole and consequence on the printed page than on the screen. We do not even get to learn the significance of the film's title.
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: col 145m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Synopsis:
From Brooklyn to Limerick, the son of a resourceful mother and ne-er-do-well Da survives disease, damp and malnutrition to become the writer of his own story.
Review:
Familiar tale of poverty, drunkenness and child mortality, leavened by doses of Irish humour and sentiment. The scope of the enterprise is self-defeating, and it is somehow easier to overlook the gap between hyperbole and consequence on the printed page than on the screen. We do not even get to learn the significance of the film's title.
Country: US/EIRE
Technical: col 145m
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Synopsis:
From Brooklyn to Limerick, the son of a resourceful mother and ne-er-do-well Da survives disease, damp and malnutrition to become the writer of his own story.
Review:
Familiar tale of poverty, drunkenness and child mortality, leavened by doses of Irish humour and sentiment. The scope of the enterprise is self-defeating, and it is somehow easier to overlook the gap between hyperbole and consequence on the printed page than on the screen. We do not even get to learn the significance of the film's title.