One of my favorite book's! Even though I feel like the book and the movie are completely different, it still was an Amazing movie! Definitely recommend watching!

Critics: 51%?? Audience: 81% What is wrong with the critics? They complain about it not being honest enough. Bullcarp. Read the book first. Then watch it. You'll get the gist of the misery and hopelessness. Alan Parker knows Ireland and the people who live and barely live in it. I loved it. And I'm only half Irish.

I loved it. It was absolutely amazing to watch.

I have seen it - I remember very little of it but I remember being moved by the story and the drama

Very distressing tale of a young Irish lad growing up in poverty in Ireland prior to WW2. Must see all-round for the performances and musical score.

Riveting attempt at translating the grim conditions in Ireland (at that time) to film. Even children sit transfixed as they watch the McCourt family in Limerick.

not a movie youll probably enjoy, but a good look at what it was like to grow up poor in Ireland in the 40s and 50s.

In all fairness, I could not finish it. I don’t think I have seen a more dull, depressing, and flat movie. Not one character was worth watching. Every person over the age of 18 was worthless. I didn’t care enough about any of the characters to stick around.

Melancholy has a face and it is buried in Angela's Ashes.

"I'm not useless, I'm just unlucky." This is the line that fascinated me for some reason in the movie Angela's Ashes. The movie resolves around a poor family, their father is after getting let go from his job so he now relies on the dole, and his pints of Guinness rather than his family. He loves the races and always wants to have a good time down the pub.

Alan Parker's splendid adaptation of Frank McCourt's memoir on the 'miserable Irish Catholic childhood' following the young McCourt's experiences growing up in 1930's Limerick, the eldest child of overburdened mother Emily Watson and ineffective father Robert Caryle. Absorbing and thoroughly watchable from start to finish with a stunningly authentic recreation of poverty-stricken Ireland at its heart.

Despite endless attempts at tragedy I felt little for what was happening. For a movie that droned on for more than 2 hours, it certainly felt as though it slighted the story. Dull with zero emotional attachment to characters that never seemed fully fleshed out, I ended up feeling as though I wasted my time.

Will you tell Jesus that we're hungry? Frank McCourt at a young age heads the opposite direction from most young Irish boys, from America back to the poor streets of Ireland. He has 3 brothers and a sister that dies at a young age. His father struggles to find a job and eventually heads out of Ireland to find a better opportunity and never returns leaving the mother desperate as she tries to raise her boys. "I said no wanking." Alan Parker, director of Angel Heart, Evita, Mississippi Burning, Shoot the Moon, Fame, Pink Floyd the Wall, and The Commitments, delivers Angela's Ashes. The storyline for this picture is very interesting and tells a fascinating tale. I adored the characters and settings. The cast delivers excellent performances and includes Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Michael Legge, and Devon Murray. "Surely our troubles would be over. Surely." This was recommended to me on Netflix so I decided to give it a shot. I thought it was well done and entertaining. The story is very compelling and well paced and I thought the acting and presentation was perfect. I recommend giving this a viewing. "He went for cigarettes." Grade: A-

La adaptación de Alan Parker ("Expreso de Medianoche", "The Wall") de "Las Cenizas de Ángela", es definitivamente, una experiencia diferente a la lectura del famoso libro de Frank McCourt, aunque no superior. Sin embargo, la cinta tiene muy buenas actuaciones y una puesta en escena muy profesional, gracias a la experticia de Parker y a la presencia de actores como Emily Watson y Robert Carlyle.

This is a must watch. I am a total sucker for true stories and this story was just... it was brilliant, tragic, inspiring.

Hard to watch at times but the payoff is just reward

Such misery and hardship is unimaginable, as is the love for a deadbeat drunkard father. The fact that this is based on Frank McCourt's own tragic childhood makes this movie all the more poignant but also a tribute to the human spirit. He overcame his modest beginnings to make his fortune in the grand US of A.

Gave me insight into my heritage and the struggles faced but not as moving as you'd think.

A beauty of miserable and painful story presents on "Angela's Ashes" and I love the way it is.

I would watch this again. Very good film about the heart wrenching childhood of Frank McCourt in Ireland.