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The site's critics consensus reads, "Equal parts comical and harrowing, The Butcher Boy is a sobering tale of abuse told with an imaginative lyricism that is by turns inspired and distracting." [ 3 ] Andrew O'Hehir of Salon said, "Neil Jordan's sweetly tragicomic movie" has "elaborate fantasy sequences [that] feel like irrelevant amusements."
He has appeared in more than 20 films since 1997. He starred in the 1997 film The Butcher Boy and his performance won him an Honourable Mention at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival . [ 1 ]
Greg Fitzgerald (born 1 September 1978) is an Irish actor, who appeared in a number of films in the 1990s including War of the Buttons (1994), [1] The Butcher Boy (1998), and One Man's Hero, (1999). Fitzgerald's theatre appearances include a lead role in Gary Mitchell's 1999 play Trust. [2] [3]
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Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.
The Butcher's Boy, features as its protagonist a professional hitman (whose real name is not given but who uses the alias Michael Schaeffer in sequels). Murder is a craft for the "Butcher's Boy," a reference to his foster father, "Eddie the Butcher," who raised him to follow in his two trades: as a cold blooded killer, and as an actual butcher for a cover life.
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.