Year			2000
Country			USA
Genre			Drama
Rating			PG
Length			2:25
Director			Alan Parker
Writer			Laura Jones
Company			Paramount Pictures
Starring			Emily Watson Robert Carlyle Joe Breen Ciaran Owens Michael Legge Ronnie Masterson Show more... Emily Watson Robert Carlyle Joe Breen Ciaran Owens Michael Legge Ronnie Masterson Andrew Bennett

In 1935, when it is more common for Irish families to leave their famine-stricken country for America, the impoverished McCourt family do the reverse. Following the sudden death of her 7-week-old daughter, Angela and her unemployable, alcoholic husband, Malachy Sr. set sail from New York Harbor to Cork with their 4 children- Frank, Malachy Jr. and twins Eugene and Oliver- to return to the land which a mystified young Frank had only heard of as 'where there was no work and people were dying of the starvation and the damp.' ...