Angela’s Ashes (1999)
This is a sweet, lovely, but ultimately rather hollow Oscar-bait movie.

This is a sweet, lovely, but ultimately rather hollow Oscar-bait movie.

Please assure me that this is the final entry in the series.

Who would have thought a middle-aged professor perving on much young ladies can be such heartwarming fun?

An implausible plot ruins a movie with several good cast members doing their best to save it. Oh well.

Whatever this movie wants to say or do, I’m just not seeing it.

Oh god, this so-meta parody of Star Trek is definitely one to remember!

Yawn, the eyes are indeed widely shut. All that nudity and still so much blah-dom? Sigh.

Oh, cringe.

How desperate is this thing for an Oscar?

Aside from the novelty of seeing local actors in an international movie, this one is a bit of a snooze. Watchable, but not very exciting.
