The Butcher Boy
by Neil Jordan
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Actor: Alan Boyle (II), Andrew Fullerton, Eamonn Owens, Peter Gowen, Sean McGinleyDirector: Neil Jordan
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1999-07-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: I see great things in store for young, and talented Eamonn Owens
Summary: 3 Stars
he just bursts off the screen. It's been a long, long, time since I've experienced such terrific acting for one so young. He reminds me of Mickey Rooney, in "A Mid-Summers Nite Dream", he was also so young but he also bursts off the screen. Even though the age between the two actors is great young Owen is almost a re-incarnation of Rooney (even though Rooney is still alive). My only complaint is the thick brogue is sometimes hard to follow. But, who cares, young Eamonn stole this movie.
Summary of The Butcher Boy
You can't write off Francie Brady, apple-cheeked hero of The Butcher Boy, as a bad seed and have done with him. In Irish director Neil Jordan's often-surreal fairy tales, bad seeds grow the fruit of subversive knowledge: A master of blending the everyday with the truly mad and wonderfully weird, Jordan loves to encourage charismatic anarchists--driven by amoral energy and imagination--to attack the status quo with extreme prejudice. Exuberant Francie (Eamonn Owens, making a splendid debut) is a thorn in the side of rural Irish repression and hypocrisy. Better to call this smart, too-sensitive brat an ambulatory Rorschach, an uncensored billboard of his disapproving society's uglier truths and fears. A nonstop standup comedian ("And the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Award goes to--Great God, I think it's Francie Brady!"), he projects fantasies of '60s cold war paranoia (atomic warfare leaves his village a graveyard of charred pigs), American "cowboys and Indians" pop culture, and Catholic Madonna worship (Sinead O'Connor appears as an earthy Virgin Mary). But Francie's rich fantasy life is no match for reality's "slings and arrows": His abusive da (Stephen Rea) pickles himself in drink, his fragile mother edges closer to suicide, "blood brother" Joe turns Judas, and a punitive stint at a Catholic reformatory ends with our Gaelic Holden Caulfield tricked out in girlish bonnet and ruffles, plaything of an addled old priest (Milo O'Shea). No wonder Francie's ultimately driven to exorcize his own Wicked Witch of the West. (He sees Mrs.?Nugent (Fiona Shaw), self-righteous pillar of a callous community, as the cause of his cursed life.) Laced with tragedy and hilarity, great beauty and horror, Jordan's adaptation of the Patrick McCabe bestseller mutates the adventures of Francie Brady--psychotic killer, performance artist, and purest innocent--into a sort of saint's life. --Kathleen MurphyArt House & International VHS Video
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