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- The Butcher Boy is bold and often shocking, but the film’s playful humor crashes against the dark, manic, sometimes depressing material and makes for an oddly enjoyable-if-devastating drama.
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Aug 2, 2022 · “The Butcher Boy” might have been finessed into a sharper, more forceful black comedy if the score from Muldoon, who is not yet a senior in college, had developed a more distinctive point of...
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.
Aug 2, 2022 · The Butcher Boy is set in a Irish village in the 1960s where local youth Francie Brady is frustrated with his small town. The surrealist coming-of-age musical takes audiences into Francie's...
77% Tomatometer 62 Reviews. 82% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. Francie (Eamonn Owens) has a disastrous childhood and retreats into television and movies to escape the pain. His mother (Aisling O...
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The Butcher Boy Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. The Butcher Boy is bold and often shocking, but the film’s playful...
Aug 4, 2022 · ‘The Butcher Boy’ Review: A Troubled Life in Ireland. This effective adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s 1992 novel, with book, music and lyrics by the only 23-year-old Asher Muldoon,...
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.
