1. The Butcher Boy movie review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert
He has fantasies of nuclear disaster, of humans turned into beasts, of charred corpses. His dad dies, and Francie leaves him in his favorite chair for a long ...
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
2. The Butcher Boy (1998) - Combustible Celluloid
My one small complaint about the movie is that, in the end, Francie becomes rehabilitated. There is an epilogue that has Stephen Rea playing the grown-up ...
Combustible Celluloid Review - The Butcher Boy (1998), written by Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe, based on a novel by Patrick McCabe, directed by Neil Jordan, and with Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle, Andrew Fullerton, Fiona Shaw, Aisling O'Sullivan, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart
3. The Butcher Boy - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
1 mei 1998 · Some malicious mischief causes him to be sent away for the first time -- to a school where he is abused by one of the priests -- and when he ...
Deeply tragic yet savagely funny, The Butcher Boy is an audacious account of a troubled and violent childhood. Set in a small rural town in Ireland in
4. THE BUTCHER BOY - Movieguide | Movie Reviews for Families
Francie's mother tries to commit suicide, but Francie stops her. Francie runs away. When he returns, he arrives at his mother's funeral. His father blames him ...
Director Neil Jordan apparently likes to showcase controversial topics in his movies. In his 1992 movie, THE CRYING GAME, for which he received an Oscar
5. The Butcher Boy | Screen Slate
14 jul 2019 · Once it prods Francie into defecating on Mrs. Nugent's living room floor, the film's form has fully sputtered into Francie's chaotic, anti- ...
Neil Jordan’s 1998 The Butcher Boy resembles something like a middle schooler’s A Clockwork Orange. Its 12-year-old hero, Francie Brady, lives in such a perfectly managed world of his own juvenile creation that it only seems natural for him to carry all the violence he sees in Lone Ranger episodes and Cold War-era news reports out of the tube and into his small Irish town.
6. Metroactive Movies | Butcher Boy
What makes Francie explode is the loss of his last illusion: the romantic, ultimately fictional tale of his parents' love story. How Francie discovers the ...
Neil Jordan's 'The Butcher Boy' loves the world it burns By Richard von Busack IT'S ANOTHER "How did they ever make a movie out of ... ?" movie: Director Neil Jordan's adaptation of Patrick McCabe's bloodcurdling novel The Butcher Boy. Set in a small Irish town at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, McCabe's book was a dark, acid, squalid read. Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game), who collaborated on the screenplay with McCabe, helped to find a softer, mellower vision in the dire novel. The country vistas, the bicycle transportation, even the darned patches on the townspeople's sweaters (immediately, I realize that most readers will have no idea what darning is, it's so obsolete in the Western world)--all of this detail adds an air of nostalgia to the story of a killer child. Is there any way for a filmmaker to make the poverty of the old days look anything but picturesque? The Butcher Boy bears an evil streak a mile long, despite the muted colors. It unfolds in a wistful rural world, but the hero, a boy of about 11, can't get a foothold anywhere in it. Eamonn Owens plays the title character, a larval psychopath, the would-be were-pig Francie Brady. Until he wears out his welcome an hour into the movie, Owens dominates The Butcher Boy like James Cagney reborn. "The Butcher Boy" is Ma Brady's favorite Irish folk song. Her son, Francie, is a plump, sturdy, brick-colored, freckly child. According to the old expression, he's the image of the way th...
7. The Butcher Boy (review) - FlickFilosopher.com
27 apr 1998 · Nugent (Fiona Shaw) — that inevitably they begin to boil over into disturbing behavior. When even his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle II) is finally ...
But like many Irish dramatic endeavors, The Butcher Boy is both comedy and tragedy, so Francie's is a little more tortured than the typical childhood. And Francie himself is more unstable than most kids...
8. The Butcher Boy | Rotten Tomatoes
Francie's tendency to project violent fantasies onto reality lands him in reform school, where he is sexually abused. Wildly looking to hold someone responsible ...
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) has little to do with him. Francie's tendency to project violent fantasies onto reality lands him in reform school, where he is sexually abused. Wildly looking to hold someone responsible for all the trauma visited on him, Francie targets his neighbor, Mrs. Nugent (Fiona Shaw).