Dear Frankie

Starring:Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small, Sophie Main, Katy Murphy, Sean Brown (III), Jayd Johnson, Anna Hepburn, Rony Bridges, Douglas Stewart Wallace, Elaine M. Ellis, Carolyn Calder, Gerard Butler, John Kazek, Garry Collins (II), Anne Marie Timoney, Maureen Johnson, Andrea Gibb (II), Cal Macaninch
Director: Shona Auerbach
Studio: Miramax
Product Type: DVD

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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

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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!

Customer Reviews:

A 'MUST SEE' MOVIE.......2007-07-03

A beautiful story, a wonderful, heart-warming film, to be watched over and over and over again, with marvelous actors.....especially Gerard Butler. To steal a line from the movie: his "eyes -- they pull you -- right in!" He has to be the most exciting, expressive, multi-talented actor working today. Move over Sean Connery; Scotland has given us another of the most handsome and talented men in the world!

Dear Frankie.......2007-06-27

What a great movie. Its very tender and catches your heart. The characters are wonderful and you will want to see it over and over. The stranger is so believable as the hesitant skeptical man posing as Frankies father. As the story unfolds , he becomes such an important force in the lives of this boy and his mother that you are totally involved in their lives. It is beautifully filmed, lovely scenery and a heartbreakingly wonderful jewel of a film.....I loved it.

Film.......2007-06-11

Cannot beat this film in any category; the story, actors, script, cinematography, set design, and location are first rate. Saw it in a theatre, have watched it many times since the DVD arrived, and shared it with friends.

Superb.......2007-05-25

I won't go over the story line again - that's well-covered elsewhere. Suffice it to say that this movie is simply superb. I logged on after watching it just so I could recommend it to as many people as possible and give it 5 stars.

The best Gerry Butler movie to date.......2007-05-16

I bought this dvd so-so many weeks ago and have seen it countless (I lost count, actually) times. So far this is THE BEST Gerry Butler movie yet. The movie is so simple (and obviously low budget) but the plot is superlative which completely blew me away. I had never been so touched by any movie before and made me cry (especially the person who made me cry was no other than Gerry B). Other casts were just as perfect. Like other reviews, when I first saw the movie it lingered for so long and made me depressed that I needed to pop in some caffeine and jogged for miles to get the adrenaline back pumping. I saw Gerry's latest stint in 300 but it didn't impress me at all. This movie is unassuming but "a real gem" and real acting at its best. So few movies are made like this (and what a pity!). I'm glad I have this dvd copy and I will cherish it for so long.

Dear Frankie [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]

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Dear Frankie [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ]
Director: Shona Auerbach
Manufacturer: Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Great Britain 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 5.1), English (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: The title character in this bowl of Scottish blarney is a sweet nine-year-old deaf boy (Jack McElhone) who lives a fugitive existence with his beautiful mother (Emily Mortimer) and his chain-smoking grandmother (Mary Riggans). The family is forced to move every few months to avoid being tracked down by Frankies violent, abusive father. The happiness of the boy, who is too young to remember the his father revolves around bogus letters penned by his mother posing as his devoted but absent dad, supposedly a merchant seaman. When a ship that coincidentally has the same name as the one his mother invented docks, she hires an impersonator (Gerard Butler) to play his seafaring dad. Although sensitively acted, the movie is a fraudulent mawkish yarn riddled with plot holes and improbabilities. SPECIAL FEATURES: Trailer(s), Short Film, Interactive Menu, Deleted Scenes, Commentary, Cast/Crew Interview(s),

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Dear Frankie
Starring: Emily Mortimer , Jack McElhone , Mary Riggans , Sharon Small , and Sophie Main
Director: Shona Auerbach
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