The butcher boy

Author

Redmond Morris

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.