This adaptation of Frank McCourt's bestselling memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood in Limerick during the Thirties and Forties revels in its endless litany of deaths, diseases and grinding ...

Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family ...

who penned the famous story Angela’s Ashes. In the memoir, McCourt relived his difficult childhood growing up in an impoverished area of Co Limerick, and the struggles his mother Angela went ...

About Angela's Ashes, how to watch, cast and FAQs. An Irish family returns to Limerick from America in the 1930s after the death of one of the children, only to face a life of poverty.