Article: 'Angela's' answer - Careful casting helps Parker illuminate memoir adaptation.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Alan Parker last went to Ireland as a director to make the film "The Commitments." It was a commitment of another kind that brought him back, and kept him there: to make a film of Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes."

It certainly wasn't for his health.

"Sometimes, halfway through filming while having the flu for three months solid, I wondered why I was doing it, actually," Parker said during a short visit to the United States from his London home.

For a filmmaker whose projects often strike a unique chord - from telling the very American Civil Rights story in "Mississippi Burning" to the unfortunate historical musical "Evita" - Parker considered ...

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