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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. [1]
Apr 17, 1998 · The closing passages of the film, which is based on a novel by Patrick McCabe, are the logical outcome of what has come before. Jordan doesn’t exploit; his tone is one of sad regarding, in which Francie’s defiant voice sounds brave and forlorn.
It’s hard to imagine who had the more difficult job: Patrick McCabe, author of the darkly funny coming-of-age novel The Butcher Boy, or Neil Jordan, who had to find a cast for the soon-to-be-released movie of the same name.
Aug 9, 2018 · What was the extraordinary work of the imagination on the page in Patrick McCabe's 1992 novel, The Butcher Boy, is fully complemented by Neil Jordan's surreal, startling and richly...
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
So consider Francie Brady, the rambunctious hero of the novel by Patrick McCabe on which this strange, astonishing film is based. The book's cover art shows a running stick figure, a bomb with...
Jul 27, 1997 · A remarkably faithful adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s macabre 1992 novel, Jordan’s 10th feature is an ambitious pic that remains intimately focused, a brutally honest exploration of a...
