Angelas Christmas 2017 The half hour CG film is based on Frank McCourts only childrens book, inspired by a story his mother Angela told him as a child McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize for his best selling memoir, Angelas Ashes Set in Ireland in the 1910s, Angelas Christmas is a funny, heart warming and poignant story about the power of family and the innocent desire of a child to ensure everyone is safe, warm and loved at Christmas time