Where was The Butcher Boy filmed?
1998 film, directed by Neil Jordan.
- Clones
The story is set in Clones, so the filming stayed close to the setting.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Clones
- Filmed in
- Clones
About The Butcher Boy
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- Released
- 1998
- Director
- Neil Jordan
- Cast
- Stephen ReaArdal O'HanlonBrendan GleesonFiona ShawMilo O'SheaSinéad O'ConnorSeán McGinleyAisling O'SullivanJohn KavanaghIan Hart
- Genre
- Black ComedyDrama
- Based on
- The Butcher Boy
- Awards
- European Film Award for Best Cinematographer; National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
The story
The film is set in Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones.
Francie Brady is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age.
When his mother suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father, an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic.
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