The Butcher Boy R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 13, 2007
- Originally Released: 1997
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stephen Rea & Eamonn Owens | |
Performer: | Alan Boyle, Sean McGinley, Fiona Shaw, Ian Hart, Aisling O'Sullivan & Sinéad O'Connor | |
Directed by | Neil Jordan | |
Edited by | Tony Lawson | |
Screenwriting by | Patrick McCabe & Neil Jordan | |
Composition by | Elliot Goldenthal | |
Produced by | Redmond Morris & Stephen Woolley | |
Director of Photography: | Adrian Biddle |
Entertainment Reviews:
...An extraordinary piece of cinema....This film gives life to the screen, capturing an era long forgotten... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Box Office
The film almost immediately loses the major asset of the novel: its language. Possibly a quarter of the movie is incomprehensible to the American ear.
Entertainment Asylum
Rating: 0/4 --
...clumsily lurches from one irrelevant, uninteresting episode to the next...
Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Director Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe adapted McCabe's novel for this bland 1998 shocker that fails miserably as satire, character study, and anything else it might have aspired to.
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Chicago Reader
...[A] strange, astonishing film....Mr. Jordan creates a riveting mixture of daydream and reality...
New York Times
[A] wickedly black comic tale...The great movie Stanley Kubrick never got to make. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
...Haunting and hypnotic....Look for THE BUTCHER BOY to ignite more than a minor blaze...
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Director Neil Jordan expertly blends fantasy and reality in the saga of Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), an energetic and imaginative boy whose bleak existence in a small 1960s Ireland town eventually drives him to drastic measures. With his friend Joe (Alan Boyle), Francie escapes into a world of comic books, television, and science fiction films to cope with his mentally ill mom (Aisling O'Sullivan) and alcoholic father (Stephen Rea, who also plays the adult Francie). Tragic circumstances mount, and the chasm between Francie's imaginary life and the drab reality of rural Ireland grows too great, leading to bloody consequences.
Jordan scripted THE BUTCHER BOY along with the author of the novel, Patrick McCabe, and the result is an unusual and rewarding blend of pitch-black comedy and wry social commentary. Owens, in his screen debut, is an absolute marvel as the lead, strutting through the film with the irrepressible cheek of a Marx brother. Cleverly avoiding a depressing or obvious depiction of Francie's breakdown, the film is a truly original, funny, and horrifying work that will likely gain recognition as a cult classic. Sinéad O'Connor appears as the Virgin Mary and also sings the title song.
Jordan scripted THE BUTCHER BOY along with the author of the novel, Patrick McCabe, and the result is an unusual and rewarding blend of pitch-black comedy and wry social commentary. Owens, in his screen debut, is an absolute marvel as the lead, strutting through the film with the irrepressible cheek of a Marx brother. Cleverly avoiding a depressing or obvious depiction of Francie's breakdown, the film is a truly original, funny, and horrifying work that will likely gain recognition as a cult classic. Sinéad O'Connor appears as the Virgin Mary and also sings the title song.
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- UPC: 012569585638
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