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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]
- $5 million
- The Geffen Film Company
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
- 224 pp (first edition, hardback)
- 1992
- April 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.
- (11.5K)
- Neil Jordan
- R
- Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens
The Butcher Boy is a 1997 drama film based on a novel by Pat McCabe, directed by Neil Jordan and starring Eamonn Owens. It tells the story of a boy who escapes into fantasy and violence to cope with his abusive family and society.
- (287)
- Neil Jordan
- R
- Eamonn Owens
Apr 17, 1998 · A film review of Neil Jordan's "The Butcher Boy", a drama about an Irish boy who turns violent and insane under the pressure of a tragic childhood and a sense of betrayal. The reviewer praises the film's visual invention, but criticizes its emotional distance and lack of connection with the material. The film is based on a novel by Patrick McCabe and stars Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, and Fiona Shaw.
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A film about the childhood of Francie, a boy who grows up in a violent and dysfunctional family in 1960s Ireland. He copes with his trauma by fantasizing about the Virgin Mary and his neighbor Mrs. Nugent.
