The Butcher Boy (1997)

Directors

Neil Jordan

Cast

Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle, Andrew Fullerton, Fiona Shaw, Aisling O'Sullivan, Stephen Rea, John Kavanagh, Rosaleen Linehan, Anita Reeves, Gina Moxley, Niall Buggy, Ian Hart, Anne O'Neill, Joe Pilkington, Pat McGrath, Jer O'Leary, Pat Leavy, Janet Moran, Paraic Breathnach, John Olohan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Mikel Murfi, Brendan Conroy, Tom Hickey, Brendan Gleeson, Gregg Fitzgerald, John Finegan, Gavin Kelty, Eoin Chaney, Milo O'Shea, Sinéad O'Connor, Ciaran Owens, Shane O'Connor, Paolo Tullio, Siobhan McElvaney, Áine McEneaney, Pat McCabe, Sean Hughes, Tony Rohr, Birdy Sweeney, Marie Mullen, Stuart Graham, Macdara Ó Fatharta, Ronan Wilmot, Vinnie McCabe, Dermot Healy, Gerard McSorley

The story

The film is set in Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father, an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic.

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