Английская Википедия:Angela's Christmas Wish
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Angela's Christmas Wish is an Irish animated family film written and directed by Damien O'Connor.[1][2] It was released on Netflix on 1 December 2020.[3] It features the voices of Lucy O'Connell, Brendan Mullins and Ruth Negga. The main character is Angela, and she wishes to reunite her family for Christmas, particularly her father who is working in Australia.[2]
It is the sequel to Angela's Christmas, which was nominated for an Emmy, and inspired by a story written by Frank McCourt.[2][4]
Plot
In Limerick 1913, a young Angela watches her father leave for Australia, and did not get a chance to sing a song to him.
Two years later, 1 year after the events of the first film, Angela tells Baby Jesus her Christmas surprise on Christmas eve, wishing it will be a doll from a toy shop. But her mother's strict house duties prevent it.
Back at home, her mother tells the children a story about a King and Pauper who get one wish each from a Genie, but the Pauper's wish is never fully told, with the only words being "I wish, I wish, I wish..."
While cleaning their rooms, Angela wonders why her mother been so strict every year, Tom explains that she misses their father, and Angela comes up with several plans to get their father back.
Angela, along with her brother Pat, start by digging holes, but fails after trying to dig both theirs and their neighbour's backyard, they go to a library for more evidence, and mistakenly believe that Australia is very close to Ireland, and they could get a train there.
After, they find local Mr. McGinty, who explains that his cow is giving birth to a baby and needs money for a vet to help her, Angela tries to earn money in a bar, but fails to get attention, then Pat walks in and they start singing Angela's song that she wanted to sing for her father but never did, and they earn wide amounts of money.
They soon run into neighbour Mrs. Blake, Angela reminds her about Mr. McGinty's cow, and she explains how he badly needs money, and it could end poorly.
Angela goes a vet's house to help, and she meets Dorothy, where her father explains that it is impossible to get a train to Australia, which causes Angela and Pat to split up, but Dorothy comes to help them both.
They arrive at the docks, and they narrowly escape the dock worker, Angela manages to reach the ship, but it leaves before she can get on, and the worker asks a guard to bring them home.
Worried about her mother's thoughts, she returns home and explains, but she doesn't mind, and tells what the Pauper had wished for; happiness from his heart, and they start telling their wishes, Angela goes to the side of the room, puts a frame of her father on her chest and starts her wish, when she turns around, she finds her father, who has returned home, much to her shock and excitement, thinking she had wished for him.
Some time after, Angela manages to save Mr McGinty's cow, finds out more from Australia from her father and live a better life, at nightime, her father kisses Angela goodnight and she goes to sleep.
Main cast
- Caitríona Balfe as Dorothy's mother
- Oscar Butler as Tom
- Moe Dunford as Father
- Shona Hamill as Aggie
- Jared Harris as the Vet
- Pat Kinevane as Mr McGinty
- Lola Metcalfe as Dorothy
- Janet Moran as Mrs Blake
- Brendan Mullins as Pat
- Ruth Negga as Mother
- James Nolan as Dock Worker
- Lucy O'Connell as Angela
- Anya O'Connor as Young Angela
- Don Wycherley as accordion player
References
Шаблон:Netflix Christmas films Шаблон:Netflix original animated series and films
- Английская Википедия
- 2020 films
- English-language Irish films
- 2020 computer-animated films
- Irish animated films
- 2020s English-language films
- Irish children's films
- Animated films set in the 1910s
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