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Angela's Ashes

Rating:R (for sexual content and some language)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:December 25, 1999
Running time:120 minutes
Cast:Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Shane Murray-Corcoran
Director:Alan Parker
Producer:Scott Rudin, David Brown
Writer:Laura Jones, Frank McCourt
Distributor:Paramount Pictures

Description: In 1935, when it is more common for Irish families to leave their famine-stricken country for America, the impoverished McCourt family do the reverse. Following the sudden death of her 7-week-old daughter, Angela and her unemployable, alcoholic husband, Malachy Sr. set sail from New York Harbour to Cork with their four children- Frank, Malachy Jr. and twins Eugene and Oliver- to return to the land which mystified young Frank had only heard of as 'where there was no work and people were dying of starvation and the damp.'

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