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Angela's Ashes is a deftly realized and beautifully filmed story of a boy coming of age during the 1930s and 1940s in the Catholic portion of Ireland. We have seen movies of this sort before, and most of them end in an ideological clash between the Irish Catholics and their Protestant counterparts. Here, however, the primary foe is not religious intolerance. Instead, it is one of the oldest enemies of humanity: poverty and hunger. more...
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3.5/4
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Doom and gloom seemed to be the way of life for best selling writer Frank McCourt. Or so you would think from this film. Few films can be clearly called depressing (I don't care how this film ended, the rest of the film was depressing), and most of those titles are great films of modern cinema (The Deer Hunter, Schindler's List). more...
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3/4
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Exquisitely depressing, Angela's Ashes is the feel-bad film of the year. Director Alan Parker's beautifully photographed, finely acted adaptation of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about growing up poor in Ireland is lyrical, haunting, evocative and intelligent. But as the Irish might opine, "Oy vay is it sad." more...
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3.5/5
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