Angela's Ashes is a book of around 300 pages in length and, as a director, it is very difficult to turn every single part of the book into a film, as there is simply no 'that's enough time. The longest films are around 3 hours long, and even then it's not enough to convey every single detail from the book to the film. And when films drag on for that long, audiences usually start to lose interest and this can be a bad thing as this can turn people away from going to see the film. Larger scenes usually appear in the film, but smaller ones do not. So let's try to see if Angela's Ashes The Movie is faithful to the book, or if it fails to convey the sensations you get while reading the book. The first thing that can be said about the film is that it skips many small passages and large scenes that help further explain the plot. If someone watched the movie first and then read the book, they would end up with a completely different story than what was told in the book and then what they get from the movie. For example, the film begins in the second paragraph of the book, simply sk...