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The Butcher Boy is a black comedy film based on Patrick McCabe's novel about a 12-year-old boy's descent into madness in 1960s Ireland. The film stars Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw and Sinéad O'Connor, and was directed by Neil Jordan.
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe, set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s. It tells the story of Francie Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
- Patrick McCabe
- 1992
One of director Neil Jordan's lesser-known films, The Butcher Boy follows the exploits of Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), the product of an alcoholic father and mentally mother, who makes...
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- Neil Jordan
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- Eamonn Owens
January 19, 2023. McCabe’s 1992 classic is a sublime masterclass of menacing, dislocated narration that inhabits the skin of the titular butcher boy Francie Brady with astonishing skill and humour across a rollicking, blacker-than-#000000 comedy wrapped in a Ken Loach movie from hell.
- (9.6K)
- 1992
- Patrick McCabe
- Paperback
A film about the antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother in 1960s Ireland. The plot follows his descent into madness and fantasy, and his visions of the Virgin Mary.
Nov 13, 2021 · the butcher boy 1997. thomas ward. 726 subscribers. Subscribed. 1.1K.
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- thomas ward
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The Butcher Boy: Directed by Neil Jordan. With Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle. The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.