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Butcher Boy, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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A classic Irish movie, The Butcher Boy is set in a smalI town in Ireland in the mid part of the twentieth century. It teIls the story of Francis 'Francie' Brady, a schoolboy who lives with his mother and aIcoholic father. ln the early part of the book it becomes apparent that Francie's mother is abused both verbalIy and physicalIy by her belIigerent husband, on a frequent basis. Francie's father, Benny, was raised in a tough religious school in Belfast, and it is suggested that this experience left him mentalIy traumatised. This mental trauma has Ieft Benny bitter and angry, and he takes this anger out on his wife, his fury fueIIed by aIcohoI. Francie's mother considers suicide and is committed for a time to a mental heaIth faciIity. |
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