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The Butcher Boy is a 1997 Irish black comedy film directed by Neil Jordan. The film was based on Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel of the same name and McCabe co-wrote the screenplay with 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 Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
- Patrick McCabe
- 1992
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.
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.
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- 1992
- Patrick McCabe
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Aug 2, 2023 · The Irish black comedy film directed by Neil Jordan, was based on Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel of the same name, featured a funny and snarky cameo from Sinead O'Connor. #thebutcherboy # ...
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- 90s TV from VHS
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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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Apr 17, 1998 · A film adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a troubled Irish boy in the 1960s. Roger Ebert praises the performance of Eamonn Owens and the visual style of Neil Jordan, but expresses his distance from the material.
