The Butcher Boy (1997)

Stephen Rea: Da Brady

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• Narrator : [voice over]  Excuse me, moon, have you got something to say or are you saying the rosary too?

• Narrator : [voice over]  And that was the end of the goldfish, because from now on I was gonna be good. And if anyone was looking for Francie the Bad Bastard, they wouldn't find him.because he was busy gettig the Francie-Not-a-Bad-Bastard-Anymore diploma.

• Da Brady : It wasn't always like this, son. You'll never know how much I loved that woman.

  Francie Brady : "May the curse of Christ light upon you, you bitch. The day I took you out of that hole of a shop in Derry was a bitter one for me."

  Da Brady : I came here to see you, son. If only you knew.

  Francie Brady : You have no son. You put me in a home like her. What did *I* do? What did I do?

  Da Brady : I loved you like no father ever loved a son, Francie.

  Narrator : [voice over]  It was hard for him to say it. I could barely hear him. It would have been better if he drew out and hit me.

• Narrator : [voice over, talking about the mental hospital]  And that's the garage for you. Bogmen at Mass thinking they're at a football match. And that's when I says: "Whatever it takes, Francie Brady's getting out of this garage for pigs."

• Narrator : [voice over]  There's only one place for aliens. And that's underneath the rotten cabbages in the brock heap.

• Narrator : [voice over]  They put Francie Brady in the garage for bad bastards and gave him a new job making baskets. And after he'd made a million trillion baskets they said they'd let him out again.

• Narrator : [voice over, Frankie sees a statue of Our Lady in a grotto]  Oh fuck, oh Mother of Jesus.

  Adult Francie Brady : Hello, stranger.

  Our Lady : How are you, Francie?

  Adult Francie Brady : Haven't seen you for a power of years.

  Our Lady : It's not that I haven't been thinking of you, Francie.

  Adult Francie Brady : What are you doing, missus, still talking to the likes of me?

  Our Lady : God loves every one of us, Francie. But you know something, Francie? He has a very special place in his heart for you.

  Adult Francie Brady : Oh no, missus, you'll have to stop this appearing and disappearing crack or they'll put me back in there.

• Da Brady : There was no whiskey then, son. Only the sea and the waves. We said the rosary on the rocks.

• Narrator : [voice over]  And the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Award goes to--Great God, I think it's Francie Brady!