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The Butcher Boy

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The Butcher Boy
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R,1hr 55min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
April 3, 1998
Director:
Neil Jordan
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle, Stephen Rea  ...more
Synopsis: Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active imagination and his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle). But beneath this benign surface lurks a troubled soul; his father (Stephen Rea) is an embittered alcoholic, his mother (Aisling O'Sullivan) is emotionally unstable and periodically ends up in the local mental ... Full Synopsis
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Jason Clark, AMG Review
Recalling Stanley Kubrick's powerful 1973 film A Clockwork Orange in its dissection of madness and society's desire to cure it, this hallucinatory, blackly comic feature by the always-provocative Neil Jordan manages to incorporate a variety of mood shifts and subtle commentary in one fully-realized piece of work. Its young star, the gifted Eamonn Owens, gives a finely-etched portrayal of young derangement ... Full Review
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Eamonn Owens
Francie
Alan Boyle
Joe
Stephen Rea
Da Brady/Francie/Narrator, Narrator
Fiona Shaw
Mrs. Nugent
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