Aisling O' Sullivan, Aisling O'Sullivan, Alan Boyle
Neil Jordan's superb adaptation of Pat McCabe's disturbing 1992 novel about a 12-year-old Irish boy's descent into madness. There's an amazing debut performance by young Eamonn Owens, with able suppor...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
Stats: 295 reviews
Jordan's whimsical but dark presentation of a boy gradually becoming psychotic is perfectly disturbing. It captures both the fun and naiveness of childhood, but also details the simple slip from mischievous trouble making into something far less wholesome. Owens gives an amazing ...( read more)
Neil Jordan's 1997 film The Butcher Boy has striking similarities to Truffaut's The 400 Blows as well as Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, though with much more satire if that's possible. Even if it's nowhere close to being as brilliant as those mentioned, Jordan's film is very good....( read more)
Stunning work... Neil Jordan proves with this Odyssey like play at politics and life that he may just be the James Joyce of filmmaking... especially with his keen eye on what it means to be outcasted or outside the realm to observe it.
The butcher boy was the story of a boy who turned into madness. The voice-over in present of this man who told his story of his youth in an Irish village in the early 60s. His father was a drunk, his mother was mentally ill, so it was nothing strange why the boy was behaving like...( read more)
In Short: Nutcase Francie Brady tells the story of his childhood and the events that led up to him being institutionalised.
The Butcher Boy tells the story of Francie Brady, who is in trouble for ?what he done on Mrs. Nugent?, which means, in plain-talk, ?what he did to Mrs. Nu...( read more)
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