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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Butcher Boy
1997
**½
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Eamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Andrew Fullerton

Neil Jordan's well made but incredibly exhausting drama about a 12-year-old Irish boy from a broken home whose eccentricity slowly turns into insanity. Eamonn Owens is lively in the lead, although his character is really annoying. Based on Patrick McCabe's novel.