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110 minutes. Country. Ireland. Language. English. Box office. $5 million. 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.
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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.
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 finds the film too detached and unfeeling.
A film about the childhood of Francie, a boy who grows up in a violent and dysfunctional family in 1960s Ireland. He escapes into fantasy and paranoia, and faces tragic consequences.
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Andrew Fullerton. Phillip Nugent. 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...
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