Frankie Starlight [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Actor: Anne Parillaud, Corban Walker, Gabriel Byrne, Jean-Claude Frissung, Niall ToibinDirector: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Host: CategoryArthouse
Host: CategoryCultFilms
Host: CategoryFrance
Host: CategoryUK
Host: CategoryUSA
Host: film movie Foreign
Host: film movie France French
Host: film movie Ireland Irish
Producer: Frankie Starlight
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, PAL
Running Time: 96 unknown-units
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starmedia
Movie Reviews of Frankie Starlight [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
Movie Review: When Will We Get Frankie Starlight in USA on DVD?
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my longtime favorite movies...it is poignant, inspiring, and heart-warming.
In the beginning, the movie is set in WWII France, in Bernadette's hometown. Bernadette (Anne Parillud) has some sort of ESP-type thing going on and frequently spooks the neighbors with her pronouncements. After predicting "the war will end tomorrow" some local lads are encouraged to vandalize the local Nazi vehicles. These boys wind up on the local beach to await American forces and freedom but are killed by a mine they begin playing with which has floated up on the beach. Bernadette witnesses the explosion and runs back to the town only to find her family and friends lined up in the town square being interrogated by the Nazis who are still very much in control. After killing many people, including Bernadette's parents, the Nazis flee as the US occupation forces triumphantly ride into town. Bernadette's premonition was right but a bit late for her parents and neighbors.
She and another girl steal away on an American Navy Ship, exchanging sexual favors for a ride to America and food from the sailors. They are caught and turned over to the authorities in Ireland, where Bernadette meets Jack (Gabriel Byrnes), the Irish Navy immigration man assigned to repatriate the stowaways. She escapes into Cork and begins a life, soon discovering she is pregnant. Jack sees her on the street and follows her to try and help her. Though his intentions were good, and he has a wife and several daughters, soon they begin an affair.
When the baby is born, we find out he is a Little Person, just as one of her relatives' child was back in France. Jack takes Frankie under his wing and teaches him all about the stars and the heavens. He is a surrogate father to the boy and provides extra food and necessities for Bernadette and Frankie, as well. Jack is followed by one of his daughters and she finds out about the affair, which causes the girl to have a mental breakdown. When everything is discovered, Jack and his family relocate and Frankie is deprived of Jack's love and male companionship.
Life goes on for them and one day an American soldier, Terry, who was on the ship, shows up at the door, looking for Bernadette. He was not a participant in the sexual "use" made of Bernadette but always remembered how beautiful she was and how sad it made him to see a young girl treated that way. He has been dumped by his American wife and enters into a love affair w/ Bernadette and becomes the new man in Frankie's life. He encourages them to come to America w/ him where he plans to marry Bernadette and adopt Frankie.
This is nowhere near the end, but I'm afraid of giving anymore away about the movie. It really needs to be experienced personally.
It plays on IFC channel and/or Sundance occasionally, and that is the only way to see it unless you can find and chose to buy a VHS tape! When, oh when, are we going to be allowed to get this on DVD in Region I ??? I wish I knew! I just keep coming back to this place on Amazon and hoping...maybe one day?
Summary of Frankie Starlight [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
Germany released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: A small man with a big story examines the facts of his life in this drama. As Frank Bois enjoys the success of his first novel, he finds himself looking back on his highly unusual life. Frank's mother Bernadette (Anne Parillaud) was a French woman who, after the death of her parents and several close friends in World War II, smuggled herself aboard an Allied troop ship sailing to Ireland, exchanging sexual favors for silence among the soldiers who discovered her on board. A kind-hearted customs agent, Jack Kelly (Gabriel Byrne), allowed Bernadette to enter Ireland, and they soon became lovers, even though she was already carrying the child of one of the soldiers from the ship. Bernadette soon gave birth to young Frankie (Alan Pentony), who suffered from dwarfism. As he grew older, Frankie fell for Jack's daughter Emma (Georgina Cates), who clearly didn't care for him, while Jack generously shared his knowledge of astronomy with Frankie. Eventually, Bernadette encountered Terry Klout (Matt Dillon), an American soldier from the troop ship, who offered to marry her. Bernadette and Frankie accompanied Terry to his home in Texas, but both mother and son felt like fish out of water in the American West, and they returned to the Irish home they came to love. A sadder but wiser Bernadette eventually committed suicide, and Frank began to draw upon his life experiences as he put pen to paper for his first book. Based on the novel The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo, Frankie Starlight was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. ...Frankie StarlightSimilar DVD Movies
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