Dear Frankie
by Shona Auerbach
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Actor: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small, Sophie MainDirector: Shona Auerbach
Brand: MORTIMER,EMILY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Dear Frankie
Movie Review: Delightly Beautiful Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Not knowing the cast or anything about the movie, but was told to watch it from customers, it surprised me on how much of a great movie it was. After I had seen it I pretty much put it in the back of my mind. Then I started to see more movies featuring Gerard Butler, so I re-watched the movie and it had brought me to tears.
The movies story is so realistic down to earth about a mothers love for her son, wanting to protect her son from any "futher" harm, but wants to hear his voice by writing to him as his father, and the kid writes back. Mothers desperate need to fulfill her sons happiness, hires a "fake dad" to play his fathers roll. Thats when Gerard Butler comes to play.
Amazing movie, full of happiness, and understand of family connection, and that a role model is needed in a kids life.
Summary of Dear Frankie
Driven by intelligent, constantly surprising and moving performances from the film's leads, Dear Frankie stars Emily Mortimer (Lovely and Amazing) as Lizzie, Scottish mother of Frankie (Jack McElhone), a deaf and highly intelligent 9-year-old. Constantly uprooting themselves and relocating from town to town, Lizzie and Frankie are on the run from the latter's abusive father, a fact unknown to the boy, who believes his dad is a busy seaman sending letters full of adventure and love. In fact, Lizzie is writing those missives, but she is faced with a challenge when Frankie discovers his father's ship will dock nearby. Lizzie hires a kind, handsome stranger (Gerard Butler) to play Frankie's dad, creating an odd situation in which ever-growing lies become a conduit for love, and Lizzie's repressed desires come to the fore with a man posing as her husband. The moral tangles are of interest in director Shona Auerbach's charmingly paced, quietly insightful drama-comedy, but so is the glorious feeling of watching these characters come fully alive. --Tom KeoghTo spare her fatherless son's feelings, a mother writes letters to her son pretending to be his seafaring father. Then she must hire a man to be his father when the boy is determined to meet him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 5-JUL-2005
Media Type: DVD
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