DVD
The butcher boy
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Eamonn Owens, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen, Alan Boyle, Andrew Fullerton, Fiona Shaw, Aisling O'Sullivan, Stephen Rea, John Kavanagh, Rosaleen Linehan, Anita Reeves.
Publication Information
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for language and violence.
Summary
Comically chronicles a young boy's descent into madness, as the boy provides a voice-over from the present to tell the story of his youth in an Irish village in the early 60s and life with his suicidal mother and alcoholic father.
Notes
Based on the novel by Patrick McCabe.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Special features include: commentary by Neil Jordan; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.