Angela's Ashes

The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.

A harrowing, intimate portrait of a family crushed by poverty, alcoholism, and loss in Depression-era Ireland, grounded in the lived experience of a child witnessing his parents' despair.

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.