GamerTab That was an excellent one.

GazerRise Fantastic!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

DKosty123 This film is truly the autobiographic story of author Frank McCourt and the family of Limerick, Ireland. It does not pull any punches about growing up poor in a family that wants for everything and gets a lot of misery. The portraits of the family and the environment are stark and real.Told through the eyes of Frankie McCourt, there are many events that come through in vivid reality. The backbone of a fine novel shows up here. Everything from innocence of child hood to coming of age are told with a labor of misery, love and coming of age all taken into account. There is so much that it can overwhelm the viewer, yet it does seem to all come together in a very human way.You do not have to read the book to know this all has a gong of human beings and the fragile human condition all written into a long tale. The observations of young Frankie growing up throughout and of the adults in his life are something special.Frankie loves his father, though dad does only very basic human things to earn that love. He loves his mother, though he resents what she has to do to keep the family whole because of dad. He loses 2 brothers at young ages, and the movie gives a loving portrait of both. This story goes through a magnificent circle of life with much more reality than any Disney cartoon could ever portray. Magnificent music punctuates a cold wet miserable family life which only love and determination could get one to live through.

Lakshmi Kanth Vizzu **MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**"Angela's ashes" is the movie ,based on a autobiography of "Frank Mccourt" with the same name....It is drama movie of a catholic family in Ireland , This movie shows the incidents since they moved from New York to Ireland .. This movie clearly reflects the middle 19th century in Ireland..It makes us laugh,cry and even make us pity on people of slums in Limerick...Most of the movie is shot in slums and are very well done... The scenes in slums may be the inspiration for Danny Boyle's "SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE"All the cast and crew are very much appreciable for this astonishing movie.. The cast is terrific , especially Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle played award winning performances.....The cinematography is astonishing , it makes us involve in the movie and with characters also..Sound tracks are awesome ..I watched all the trash movies and kept this movie aside , and i wonder how i did that...Alan parker is definitely one of the best directors ever, if you had any doubt about it , Go see "Angela's Ashes" now...After watching this movie i read the book , i can surely say that there is no need to read the book if you watched the movie ...A perfect adaption of a best selling book...if you once completed your viewing then i recommend you to read the sequels (books) of it , known as "'Tis" and "The Teacher Man" .... Its not a date night movie,you must in a perfect mood to enjoy this movie.. worth watching more than once...My RATING :9/10 (5/5 for actors)(4/5 for rest)

thinker1691 Frank McCourt wrote this incredible tale of his brutal life growing up in Limerick Ireland. His home country has worn the scars of it history well on the faces of it's migrating citizens. That face can be easily seen in the tear streaked faces which permeate the film called " Angela's Ashes. ". Being one of them by blood stock, Frank McCourt (Joe Breen: Ciaran Owens: Michael Legge) tells of his impoverished family and their desperate day-to-day struggle just to eek out a living. Their daily efforts are further hampered by an lay-about, alcoholic father (Robert Carlyle) and a haggard mother. (Emily Watson) Beginning in America, then traversing the Atlantic for a better life, then returning, McCourt forgoes the achievements of the family and instead relates the constant ravages of dire poverty. Always in need, the family is forever moving. From meager pitiful surroundings, they move from place to place dealing with ambivalent church authorities and their artificial sympathy, to the constant nagging hunger which is forever present. Indeed, McCourt records in his boyhood memories the silent ridicule of surrounding neighbors. Believing things will never change, Frank is surprised by Aunt Aggie (Pauline McLynn) who favors him. This allows his fortune to change, allowing him to believe the world may yet deliver his family up from the rain-soaked cobblestone streets of Ireland to the Land of Opportunity which is his dream in America. The movie is filled with stark realism, brutal images and gruff bitter memories of object despair. With a musical score written by John Williams and directed by Alan Parker, 'Ashes' will be found on the top shelves of the Classics. ****

adamjames2011 Rated 9 out of 10!!!!The film "Angela's Ashes" is a drama that is based on the book "Angela's Ashes" written by Frank McCourt. The film was directed by director Alan Parker who was nominated for two Oscars in 1978 and 1988. The film is classified as a drama because of the type of events that occur the film. The film has a serious tone throughout the whole thing which is based on the poor living conditions and poverty of Ireland between the 1920's and 1940's. Drama is defined as a situation or succession of events in a real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a film or play. The story starts off with a young Frank McCourt as played by Joe Breen and his family which consists of a mother, father, and 3 brothers and a newly born baby girl all living in the United States. After a harsh time in the United States and a tragic death in the family during the depression they moved back to their home country, Ireland. In a small catholic town the father, Malachy McCourt played by Robert Carlyle unable to find a job due to being an alcoholic and a protestant. After more deaths in the family Malachy McCourt goes to England to look for a job and plans to send back money to support his family. Back at home in Ireland the McCourt family struggling to get by and the children having to go out and scrounge up food just so that they can live. While the mother, Angela McCourt played by Emily Watson has to beg for food from the people around the town who have leftovers. But what happened to Malachy McCourt who went over to England to earn money? As Frankie slowly gets older he realizes that for his family to be able to survive he has to get a job and successfully got a job pouring coal into holes in the street to supply heating to houses. Later on Frank has to go to the hospital due to a sickness he got from the unclean and dirty town due to the poor sewage from the outside toilets and people dumping their waste into the streets from the middle of the street. Growing up in a rough environment and finally a teenager Frank finds a girlfriend whom he grows very close to but in the end something goes wrong and Frank can't do anything about it. Malachy McCourt was a character that stood out to me during the film, he was played by Robert Carlyle who won the BAFTA film award in 1998 and also nominated for an Emmy in 2006 for the movie "Human Trafficking." Malachy McCourt stood out t me because of the way he portrays life he seems like he gives up too easily and whenever something goes wrong or even if something is going good he still goes to the bar and blows all of the money the family has(which is not much) on alcohol. When Malachy finally comes home from the bars he can barely walk and is singing Irish songs that he has picked up from his life. But even though Robert Carlyle played a character that was disappointing he played him very well. Without Malachy in the movie the story line would not have been as interesting as it was and without Malachy the story line would have had to be completely different. Malachy of course was born in Ireland but in the north part so he was a protestant and was disliked by the mother in law because she was catholic and also he is an alcoholic and drinks the families' money away. I didn't like Malachy because of the way he lived his life and wasting it by drinking and not supporting his family.The best scene in the film to me was when little Frank McCourt was in school and got in trouble because another kid made fun of his shoes that had a bicycle tire in the bottom so that he had tread and his feet were not showing through the bottom. Frank went to the principal's office with another kid and they both got their wrists slapped with a ruler for a punishment. This scene was my favorite because of the picture that you see when Frankie has these shoes that have a huge piece of rubber on the bottom so he walks like a duck. The worst scene in the movie to me was when Malachy went to England to find a job and he said he was going to send back the money he earned from the job. But deep down you know he will not send any money and probably spend it all on alcohol.If I was the director I would have changed the ending of the movie because the way it ends know it leaves you hanging to think about what could happen after Frankie makes it to the United States. I would have kept the movie going and had a flash forward to what Frankie could have been doing when he was 30 years old and had him with his wife and kids in front of the house holding a picture of his mother and father, and that would have been the ending to the film if I was the director.