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"Transcending Poverty in Ireland", Frank and Malachy McCourt as children were living in poverty with their parents in New York, such destitution that the family was forced to return to poverty-stricken Ireland in order to survive. They were one of the few Irish families that viewed the Statue of Liberty on their way out of the harbor instead of coming in.
Their father was a good man with serious flaws. He was unable to find work, and whenever he got some extra money, he spent it on booze rather than on his family. He was not an abusive drunk, but a pernicious one nevertheless. The mother was strangely passive at times. They lived in gray, dreary Limerick where it seemed always to be raining, and a pool of water sat in the downstairs of their house. The two brothers somehow thrived despite the gloomy life. Seeing them running through puddles, splashing each other, remaining somehow buoyant, helps to save the movie. Frank's confessions to various priests are priceless humor.
In many ways this is a grim, sad story, but bursts of humor, great acting, and occasional evidences of humanity and generosity save it from descending into a completely depressing movie. Frank's days at school with the Catholic brothers are fascinating. The teachers rail against the British who dominated Ireland for so long.
It is a story of transcendence over poverty. Based on Frank's book, it spares nothing as it shows the struggles he had to go through in life. The family faced deaths, debts, and a society that had little use for a family that had failed and returned from the city where the streets were paved with gold. The movie is made richer by those who have read the book.
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"angela's ashes", this is a book that you do not want to keep returning to the library, get one of your own, it is that great!!! also "tis"by the same author: frank mc court. but be wary, you may book a flight to limeric, ireland!

"'Tis Magnificent!", Frank McCourt has a way with words! His memoir of growing up poor in Ireland, with a drunk for a father and lazy, shiftless mother is written without malice. He and his brothers are left to their own devices to keep themselves fed, warm and clothed when Frank, the oldest is not even four years old. They live in a house where the main floor floods every year and they have to wade through the sewage to live in the remaining room upstairs until the water recedes. They grow so cold that they resort to tearing the walls apart for firewood. And yet his mother needs her cigarettes and his father needs his drink.

Frank's tenacity and humor in the midst of such misery is his salvation. And it is what makes this memoir so poignant. His own parents and grandparents, neighbors and the Catholic church leave Frank and his brothers to their own devices for survival. And they survive! And go to America. And it's a true story.

"arguably one of the most depressing and bleak movies I have ever seen", This movie is worth watching once. I had not read the book, so I had no idea what to expect. It is arguably one of the most depressing and bleak movies I have ever seen. Poverty is rampant in this movie and I dont think it ever stopped raining through the movie. It didnt escape me that the only speck of noticeable color in the movie is Angelas coat. The acting is magnificent and the sets were very well done and believable.

"Not exactly like the book, but good just the same", I bought the DVD of Angela's Ashes after purchasing the audio CD of the book (which I highly, highly recommend). Starting with the audion CD, I was enthralled in listening to Frank McCourt's own voice (almost as if he was telling his whole childhood story just to me). I actually was so disappointed when the book ended (because it had me so captivated), I couldn't wait to see the movie. So, I bought it. Now, the strengths of the movie are that you get to see some beautifulm and tragic, areas of where the McCourts came from. The acting was pretty good. The bad part for me was that it seemed so depressing. It was raining constantly (which I know it does frequently in Ireland, but not every day and all the time. Even the audio CD talked of days with sunshine. I think the creator/director of the movie was trying awfully hard to make the McCourt's childhood similar to people living in some kind of an abusive/prison type setting. The audio CD had me laughing out loud at some of the most tragic parts of his life, as Frank inserted his phenominal sense of humor into everything. I didn't seem to get that same feel from the movie. Many scenes that were discussed in the book were either left out or glossed over in the movie all together. After hearing the CD, I felt enlightened, enchanted, craving to hear more of his life (so, I bought 'TIS last week). The movie just wanted to make me cry and get on my knees to thank God I wasn't raised in that area of Ireland during the 1940's. I recommend it only if you have read/are going to read the real book behind this. It is worth seeing to be able to relate to the town and scenery that you will hear/read about in the book.

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"A West Briton's Irish minstrel show", Frank McCourt announces the hate-filled theme of his malevolent Bildungsroman in his first paragraph: "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." I haven't read the book, but this movie is just one shovelful of muck after another thrown upon unrecognizable and unbelievable caricatures of the Catholic Church and the Irish people. Not content with slandering the Faith and the Fatherland, McCourt is a man of such baseness that he even puts his own dead parents at the front of his firing squad of degradation. Even if his father's alcoholism and his mother's prostitution were true, it takes a man of extremely vile character to tell the whole world about it. But that's what Frank McCourt is and that's what the real message of this movie is: utter materialism. Faith, patriotism, morality are things to be scorned, and if you can make a buck by spitting on your own parents, go for it. In that, he is an evangelist of the American Spirit and the New Ireland where shameless mercenaries conduct "Angela's Ashes" tours through Limerick, making a living by running down their own city and their own people.

Thankfully, at least one man has written a counterpoint (Gerard Hannan's "Ashes" Ashes (Pennance Trilogy, 1)), detailing a happy childhood in a quite different Limerick than the one McCourt describes. And some quite cursory internet searches will reveal that McCourt's book is a package of stinking lies; lies about the extent of Limerick's misery, lies about actual people- living and dead-, and lies about the extent of the poverty in his own overweight childhood in the elite boy scout troop of the city. When people confront him about this, the self-important McCourt mocks them as "begrudgers" and compares himself to James Joyce and John Synge. But what do facts matter when the lies you tell tickle the ears of the secular, leftist elite of media and university? Gerard Hannan could write like Shakespeare, but he would never get a major American book deal or an honorary degree from the University of Limerick.

In America, White people used to put on things called "minstrel shows", where they would wear black makeup on their faces and mock Black people by exaggerating their most demeaning stereotypes. Black people were rightfully offended and public sentiment eventually forced an end to the spectacle. With "Angela's Ashes", an Irishman wrote a derogatory book about his own people, which was turned into a movie where an English actress and a Scottish actor exaggerate the most demeaning stereotypes about the Irish. And warped Irish and Irish Americans put the book and movie on their shelves as some sort of point of pride. "Eirean abu" has given way to "Nostalgie de la Boue" and our people can't seem to wallow in it enough.

"Angela's Ashes - Movie", The movie was good, but I think I would have appreciated it more if I hadn't read the book so close to watching the movie.

"Not bad. Not too good.", Angela's Ashes is one of the best books I have ever read. I would have given this film atleast FOUR stars had I not read the book first. It is not a bad movie but I don't think the characters chosen to play a few crucial roles were too good. However, I must give credit to the fact that most situations described within the book are covered (with much haste). I didn't quite the get the feel of the film belonging to Ireland. The movie lacked much of the begging for basic food items and it also lacked the unbothered air of foolishness around Frank's father.

One major reason I give the film three stars and the book five is that I laughed out loud around 14 times while reading the book while around 2times while watching it.

To people who dislike reading books, this movie is for you.
For fans of the book and movie, Sorry - It didn't work for me.


Beyond the beyonds.

"A Film Totally True To The Book....And A Beautiful DVD ", Frank McCourt's best-selling book is so good, and this movie is so true to it, that if you liked one, you'll like this because rarely has film been so close to a book. It's amazing, given what normally is the case.
Even though the film brought no surprises, I still thought it was fascinating because of the fantastic cinematography in here and the great job done by the actors. The muted colors in this film are beautiful and the lighting is superb. Then again, it's hard to go wrong with a nighttime streetlight-lit shot of cobblestone streets. The directing talents of Alan Parker were never more evident than here. He should do more movies.
The book, "Angela's Ashes," is a biography of McCourt and his extremely poor Irish family. All three boys who play McCourt at various times in his development are excellent here. The whole cast is excellent, for that matter, led by "Angela" (Emily Watson) and husband Malachy (Robert Caryle). Two sadder-looking faces, you never did see, and a more rainy, dreary town (Limerick) you never did see....so if you're looking a happy, uplifting story, pass this one by. However, if you want a film totally true to a great book, wonderfully photographed film and one acted well ....and with some unique humor to it, check this out.
I don't want to leave out the humor, the key ingredient in McCourt's otherwise- depressing days of growing up. Humor and dire poverty never went together so well as McCourt made it sound through his book and the filmmakers did through this movie.

"Frank McCourt's life", This story stayed with me for very long time. I couldn't wait to get his next book "Tis".