My Giant/The Odd Couple II/City of Angels/The Player's Club/The Big One/The Butcher Boy

"  You've   won,   Mrs. Nugent,   Joe   is  gone  forever  "

An extremely Powerful, well acted and brilliantly written film.

Miranda Richardson in The Crying Game (1992)

Jon Voight and Brendan Gleeson in The General (1998)

Beverly D'Angelo, Niall Byrne, and Lorraine Pilkington in The Miracle (1991)

Nick Nolte and Nutsa Kukhianidze in The Good Thief (2002)

Alicja Bachleda and Colin Farrell in Ondine (2009)

Brendan Gleeson and Peter McDonald in I Went Down (1997)

Stephen Rea and Eamonn Owens in The Butcher Boy (1997)

Stephen Rea

Fiona Shaw

Eamonn Owens

Pat McCabe

Neil Jordan

The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.

The Butcher Boy

&quot;  You&apos;ve   won,   Mrs. Nugent,   Joe   is  gone  forever  &quot;

During the 1960&apos;s people were fearful of losing their world. What with the Cuban Missle Crises and the threat of Nuclear Winter, it&apos;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, &quot;The Butcher Boy.&quot; 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&apos;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&apos;s reason for his erratic behavior. Was it his drunken father&apos;s (Stephen Rea) physical abuse, his mother&apos;s suicidal tendencies, incarceration at reform school, becoming a victim of sexual abuse by Father Sullivan (Milo O&apos;Shea), subsequent shock treatments, increasing mental delusions of space aliens or iconic religious figures. It&apos;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. ****

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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