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The Butcher Boy
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Overview

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7.1/10   4,559 votes
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Director:
Neil Jordan
Writers:
Pat McCabe (novel)
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Release Date:
20 February 1998 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
This little piggy laughed all the way home!
Plot:
The film tells the story of Francie who lives with his depressed mother and alcoholic father. He loves... more | add synopsis
Awards:
7 wins & 8 nominations more
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(8 articles)
Jordan & McCabe at Ranelagh Arts Fest
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" You've won, Mrs. Nugent, Joe is gone forever " more (58 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Eamonn Owens ... Francie Brady
Sean McGinley ... Sergeant
Peter Gowen ... Leddy
Alan Boyle ... Joe Purcell
Andrew Fullerton ... Phillip Nugent
Fiona Shaw ... Mrs. Nugent
Aisling O'Sullivan ... Ma Brady

Stephen Rea ... Da Brady
John Kavanagh ... Dr. Boyd
Rosaleen Linehan ... Mrs. Canning
Anita Reeves ... Mrs. Coyle
Gina Moxley ... Mary
Niall Buggy ... Father Dom
Ian Hart ... Uncle Alo
Anne O'Neill ... Mrs. McGlone
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
Country:
Ireland | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Quotes:
Francie Brady: [to Jimmy the Skite] Feck off, you round tub of Guinness! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Book That Wrote Itself (1999) more
Soundtrack:
SEA OF HEARTBREAK more

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" You've won, Mrs. Nugent, Joe is gone forever ", 30 September 2007
8/10
Author: thinker1691 from USA

During the 1960's people were fearful of losing their world. What with the Cuban Missle Crises and the threat of Nuclear Winter, it's little wonder many hid in prayerful disillusion. For two young Irish boys, something loomed closer. Their lives encompassed their town, their family and their friendship. The first is Joe Purcell (Alan Boyle) a typical Irish boy out to enjoy his youth. The second is his best and closest friend named Francis Brady (Eamonn Owens) who becomes the unlikely hero in the movie, "The Butcher Boy." To Joe, friendship is a temporary bond which enhances life with laughter, pranks and boyhood imagination. But to Francis Brady, friendship is permanent and indelible which nothing on the planet, including Atomic fire, can separate. Enter, the boy's Nemesis, the town gossip and constant irritation to their bond. Mrs. Nugent, (Fiona Shaw) sees the boys as lowly delinquents, petty trouble makers, vicious bullies and future criminals. During the escalating conflict, the audience watches as Francis loses many of the people he loves. Eventually, Mrs. Nugent causes him to lose his best friend. Vengefully, Francis marks her for ultimate punishment. Audiences must decided the boy's reason for his erratic behavior. Was it his drunken father's (Stephen Rea) physical abuse, his mother's suicidal tendencies, incarceration at reform school, becoming a victim of sexual abuse by Father Sullivan (Milo O'Shea), subsequent shock treatments, increasing mental delusions of space aliens or iconic religious figures. It's little wonder Francsis commits the ultimate act of revenge. This is an honest, straight forward movie, which depicts the inner workings of a fragile but psychotic boy in crises. Many people allow maturity to transform them into adults, but some refuse, paying the inevitable price for doing so. ****

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