Angela's Ashes
The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.
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.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, David Brown Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Scott Rudin Productions
- Keyword: emigration, irish-american, hunger, socially deprived family, rain, famine, alcoholism, poverty, based on memoir or autobiography, ireland, brooklyn, new york city, alcoholic father, dead children, irish catholic, 1930s, life in the slums, drunkard, children in need, limerick, rainy setting
- Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Michael Legge, Ciarán Owens, Ronnie Masterson