The Butcher Boy 1997

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The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish tragicomic drama adapted to ...(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118804)
The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish tragicomic drama adapted to film by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe from McCabe's 1992 novel
of the same name. Set in the early 1960s, The Butcher Boy is about Francis Brady (Eamonn Owens), a 12-year-old boy, who becomes a problem child due to his dysfunctional family, and displays uncontrollable brutality when he grows up. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother suffers a nervous breakdown after having attempted suicide, he is left in the care of a father (Stephen Rea) who is a violent alcoholic. "Fascinated by gangsters, cowboys and Indians, comic-book monsters and the early-1960s threat of nuclear annihilation," Francie becomes a problem child, ending up at reform school. Here, he finds solace in his fantasies about a foul-mouthed saint (Sinéad O'Connor). As an adult, Francie (Stephen Rea) returns home to find both his parents dead and all ties to his past severed. His reaction to being left completely alone in the world is one of uncontrollable brutality, which shocks the provincial town he grew up in.
The film won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998 and a Special Mention for Owens' "astonishing lead". It also won the European Film Award for Best Cinematographer for Adrian Biddle. It was Neil Jordan's tenth feature film and Geffen Pictures' final production.

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