The Butcher Boy
Summary:
Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active imagination and his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle). But beneath this benign surface lurks a troubled soul; his father (Stephen Rea... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Eamonn Owens - (Francie)
Alan Boyle - (Joe)
Stephen Rea - (Da Brady/Francie/Narrator)
Fiona Shaw - (Mrs. Nugent)
Andrew Fullerton - (Philip)
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Review:
Recalling Stanley Kubrick's powerful 1973 film A Clockwork Orange in its dissection of madness and society's desire to cure it, this hallucinatory, blackly comic feature by the always-provocative Neil Jordan manages to incorporate a variety of mood shifts and subtle commentary in one fully-realized piece of work. Its young star, the gifted... Continue >>
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