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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

aiyobro Also it goes completely out of the way to make the father look like a drunkard. The family is going through a great depression in ireland of all places and the father loses his job, because of the depression! It also shows him drunk constantly without a job. EVERYONE there drinks after work. If he was coming home drunk without money it was because he wasn't the same ethnicity as the others making it even harder for him to find a job. It's like this movie automatically equates drinking with poor people, when that obviously is not the case, usually poor people work the most and spend the less time with their family not more.

jlthornb51 While the film reflects many of the faults and weaknesses of the source material, Emily Watson's performance as Angela is one to be remembered for all time. She is absolutely electric and the screen smolders in every scene in which she works her magic. Mesmerizing and hypnotic in her painful portrait, Watson demonstrates once again why she is considered one of the greatest motion picture actors of our time. In film after film, from Hilary and Jackie to The Book Thief, this is an actor that astonishes audiences with each performance. She certainly succeeds beyond all belief in Angela's Ashes in proving the Academy Awards have lost any credibility they ever had when she did not win the Oscar for her work here, or in Breaking the Waves, Punch Drunk Love, or a dozen other incredibly beautiful film performances.

Dale Haufrect "Angela's Ashes" is an exhilarating autobiography. The film is from 1999 and is written by Laura Jones. The book is by Frank McCourt. It is very dramatic and follows the life of Frank McCourt from his boyhood in Brooklyn in 1935 to his return to Ireland and the loss of his three younger siblings due to his family's poverty. The cast includes Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Claran Owens, Michael Legge, Ronnie Masterson, Pauline McLynn, Liam Carney, Eanna MacLiam, Andrew Bennett, Shane Murray-Corcoran, Devon Murray, Peter Halpin, Aaron Geraghty, Sean Carney Daly, Oisin Camey Daly, Shane Smith, Tim O'Brien, Blaithnaid Howe, Klara O;Leary, Caroline O'Sullivan and Ryan Fielding. It is a long picture, but well performed and I gave it 8 stars. Dale Haufrect

JohnLeeT Ms. Emily Watson gives what is nothing less than the acting performance of the decade in this wonderful film which is made even more powerful by the magic she brings to the screen. No one else on stage or screen has astonished audiences and brought them to their feet tearfully cheering the way Ms. Watson has over the course of her career. No, Ms. Watson is not a superstar, just a Super Actor. That she was not awarded the Academy Award for this incredible characterization renders the Oscars meaningless for all time! She alone puts her soul into a role and becomes at one with whoever she portrays in such stunning ways that it is beyond description. What she does in the part of Angela will rip your heart out and leave you gasping, overwhelmed by what you have experienced. While the reviews of this film have not been universally positive, no critic with any spiritual connection with art has done anything but praise Emily Watson for her magisterial work in bringing Angela to life, including Frank McCourt, the son of the woman she so elegantly portrays! In so doing, Ms. Watson has added one more performance for the ages to the history of fine cinema and one that will touch the hearts of viewers for generations to come, never to be forgotten and forever a gift to those who treasure truly great Acting with a capital A. There may never be another actor like her in our time for she is a unique gem that can never be replicated.