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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 12223
Released: July 5, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This touching and humorous movie has earned the raves of critics and won the hearts of audiences everywhere! To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer -- Disney's THE KID) secretly authors letters from his "father" that detail seafaring adventures from around the world. But she cannot maintain this illusion forever. Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie gets more than anyone bargained for when she hires a handsome stranger (Gerald Butler -- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE) to play the role of a lifetime! Winner at both the Heartland Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival, this entertaining motion picture is sure to touch your heart!
Description 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 Keogh
Dear Frankie Reviews:
What a gem! 
2009-11-30 - One of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Every character is beautifully written and the acting was superb. Sweet, funny, touching. Wish there were more movies like this one out there.
wonderful story
2009-10-03 - A well made story with great acting and script. A movie I would watch many times.
Excellent "feel good" movie
2009-09-19 - I watched this movie on the recommendation of my best friend and the fact that Gerard Butler was in it...I have been thanking my friend ever since. This is a heart warming story line with understated but powerful performances. When you watch the movie, don't expect "fluff", for this is a study in how one small event can change one's life. This has the best of any movie - for those who want only feel good, they have it; but, for those who want a subtle, but passionate, statement of the human condition, they have it. Watch the movie.
beautiful, emotionally revealing story
2009-08-16 - A moving, subtly acted film enhanced by its setting in a small Scottish fishing village. The title character, Frankie, is a young deaf boy who lives with his mother and grandmother. His only contact with his father is through letters written with love and touched by deception. Gerard Butler gives an outstanding performance as a strong, quiet man whose own suffering in life makes him care for a small deaf boy.
Dear Frankie dvd review
2009-07-06 - This item was delivered quickly and just as described. It is a simlple movie that has a pleasant soundtrack and the storyline is enjoyable.
