The Butcher Boy is a 1917 short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keaton's film debut.

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses. Written by Ed Stephan

The film tells the story of Francie who lives with his depressed mother and alcoholic father. He loves his family a lot and promises her mother to not ever let her die when one day she attempts to commit suicide. He loves it so much that one day he murders his vicious neighbour Mrs. Nugent who distributed nasty rumours about his parents. He is then put into a mental institution where he meets an angel called Our Lady. Written by Anonymous

Francie (Eamonn Owens) and Joe (Alan Boyle (II)) live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father (Stephen Rea) and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother eventually commits suicide and Joe goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia directed mainly against Mrs. Nugent (Shaw, Fiona), a nasty neighbour, and fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary ('Sinead OConnor) After his father dies Fancie's condition worsens, his behaviour becomes more bizarre and erratic culminating in the extremely bloody murder of Mrs. Nugent whom he holds responsible for all the wrongs visited upon him. The authorities arrest Francie and commit him to an asylum in an attempt to cure him. Written by Mark Smith

Young Francie has a lot to worry about, what with his alcoholic father and mentally unstable mother, and his unceasing battle against his arch-enemies, the Nugents. Not to mention Our Lady and the aliens... Written by wy