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Set in the early 1960s, The Butcher Boy is about Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), a 12-year-old boy who retreats into a violent fantasy world to escape the reality of his dysfunctional family; as his circumstances worsen, his sanity deteriorates and he begins acting out, with increasing brutality.
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.
Apr 17, 1998 · The film takes place in the early 1960s, in a small town in the west of Ireland. It is narrated by Francie, who is played by the newcomer Eamonn Owens in one of the cockiest and most confident performances I've seen by a young actor. Francie's homelife is not happy.
Jun 22, 2012 · When his abusive father (Stephen Rea) dies, and his suicidal mother is institutionalized, Francie acts out in homicidal fashion. Disturbing and surreal, director Neil Jordan's adaptation of ...
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense.
Francie (Eamonn Owens) has a disastrous childhood and retreats into television and movies to escape the pain. His mother (Aisling O'Sullivan) is suicidal, and his alcoholic father (Stephen Rea ...
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Aug 9, 2018 · Jordan's 10th feature film, The Butcher Boy is closest both in themes and treatment to his second movie, the Angela Carter adaptation, The Company of Wolves, with his heightened, stylised...
Novel, Screenplay. Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense.
The Butcher Boy. Drama 1998 1 hr 46 min. A dark journey into the mind of a troubled Irish boy whose obsession with maintaining his family's honor leads him to commit a gruesome murder and eventually have a nervous breakdown.
