Liam: The Shock of Recognition | Irish America
Anthony Borrows stars as Liam, a seven-year-old Irish boy suffering mutely. By Anthony Borrows, Contributor Los Angeles Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan wryly observed that Liam, director Stephen Frears’s British film about an Irish family in 1930s Liverpool, “does a better job of re-creating the ambience of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes than that film did.” Avoiding the dramatic and visual monotony that makes Alan Parker’s 1999 film of Angela’s Ashes such an unrelievedly dreary experience, Liam brims over with the roiling passions and variegated colors of childhood memor...