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Set in the early 1960s, The Butcher Boy is about Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), a 12-year-old boy who retreats into a violent fantasy world to escape the reality of his dysfunctional family; as his circumstances worsen, his sanity deteriorates and he begins acting out, with increasing brutality.
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.
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.
Neil Jordan ‘s “The Butcher Boy” tells the story of an Irish boy who turns violent and insane under the pressure of a tragic childhood and a sense of betrayal.
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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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.
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense.
