Angela's Ashes

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt becomes this powerful drama from director Alan Parker ("Evita"). Emily Watson stars as Angela McCourt, the long-suffering wife of Malachy (Robert Carlyle), a well-intentioned bloke whose dreams of a better life for his impoverished family drift away in an alcoholic haze, leaving young Frank and his siblings alone to struggle in dire circumstances on the slum-like streets of Limerick, Ireland.