Angela's Ashes

 

Angela’s Ashes 1999

• Director: Alan Parker
• Seen by this director: The Life of David Gale, Evita, The Commitments, Mississippi Is Burning, Fame, Midnight Express
• Based on the book by Frank McCourt
• Cast: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Emily Watson – Chernobyl, Genius, Everest, Testament of Youth, The Theory of Everything, The Book Thief, The Politician’s Husband, Cemetery Junction, Fireflies in the Garden, Wah-Wah, Equilibrium, Punch-Drunk Love, Gosford Park, Cradle Will Rock, Hilary & Jackie, The Boxer, Breaking the Waves
• Robert Carlyle – Yesterday, Trainspotting 1&2, Stargate Universe, Stone of Destiny, 28 Weeks Later, Flood, Dead Fish, Black and White, Once upon a Time in the Midlands, The 51^st State, The Full Monty, Hamish Macbeth, Carla’s Song, Go Now, Riff-Raff
• Why? The cast
• Seen:  8 December 2023                   

        When the book was all the rage I was unimpressed but I like Carlyle and Watson so maybe I’ll like the film better.

       Relentless poverty plagues the McCourt family in the town of Limerick, Ireland, in the 1930s. Unemployment, alcoholism, fanatical and tedious Catholicism don’t help.

       Grim and well-acted, it is still boring and somewhat superficial. It moves me as little as the book did.

 2 ½ * of 5