Dear Frankie | 
 enlarge | Director: Shona Auerbach
Actors: Emily Mortimer, Jack Mcelhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small, Sophie Main
Studio: Miramax
Category: DVD
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Rating:  207 reviews
Sales Rank: 3372
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936270938
UPC: 786936270938
EAN: 0786936270938
ASIN: B00094AS9A
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: July 5, 2005
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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 Keogh
Product Description
To 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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A movie worth watching! (which isn't easy to come by) July 17, 2008
This movie has depth, emotion, realistic characters and relationships, a story that hasn't been told a hundred times, and a beautiful soundtrack. Movies like this are few and far between!
Delightly Beautiful Movie July 6, 2008
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.
Dear Frankie June 18, 2008
Wife bought this movie - she is a fan of Gerard Butler - loved the movie - he is a great actor and the movie was very moving - loved it.
Warm fuzzy award alert! June 17, 2008
Get ready to get all wrapped up in this tender story about a little deaf boy and his 'father'...if you're a Gerry Butler fan, watch his facial expresson when he stoops down next to Frankie at the pet store aquarium - smouldering tenderness not often seen on Gerry's face - it's priceless!
Moving... June 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Film set is a seaport town of Greenock, Scotland in the early 2000's. Lizzie Morrison, is a young single mother who cares for her 9 year old deaf son (Frankie) and her elderly Mother (Nell). Lizzie continues to move her son and Mother from town to town to hide from her former husband. Lizzie decides to fabricate a positive role model for the boy by creating and trading letters between Father and son. The Father being a sailor who sends the boy letters from various points of call - and the son captivated by the stories of his journeys of the sea and other lands. The scheme hits trouble when one of Frankie's troublesome schoolmates finds out that the Father's make-be-believe ship is actually coming to Greenock - so he bets Frankie that his Father won't show. Lizzie is torn between telling her son the truth and coming up with a solution to the predicament. Eventually she finds a Father impersonator who agrees to play the role of Father in exchange for payment. And the story takes off from here...
The film is exceptionally well casted. Lizzie plays the role of the caring, doting Mother. Nell, Lizzie's Mother, is a sharp tongued, worry-wart Mother. Frankie, is quiet, determined, kind hearted and thirsts to see and have a relationship with his Father. The film keeps you in suspense for most of the journey. This is an emotional film about the iron ties of Mother to child...the importance of family and friends to pull you through the most difficult times...and the power of human spirit. Great film...
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