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Dear Frankie
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MORTIMER,EMILY
EAN: 0786936270938
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 786936270938
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 05, 2005
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Editorial Review:
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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A movie worth watching! (which isn't easy to come by)
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!
Rating: - Delightly Beautiful Movie
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Dear Frankie
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.
Rating: - Warm fuzzy award alert!
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!
Rating: - Moving...
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 ... Read More
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