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The Butcher Boy
Running Time: 115 min.
MPAA Rating: R
Produced By: / Butcher Boy Films / Geffen Pictures / Warner Brothers
Released: April 17, 1998 (USA)

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 im... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Eamonn Owens (Francie) Alan Boyle (Joe) Stephen Rea (Da Brady/Francie/Narrator) Fiona Shaw (Mrs. Nugent) All Cast & Crew >> 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 s ... Continue >>

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