Dear Frankie (2004)

Directed by Shona Auerbach and filmed on location in Scotland, Dear Frankie is a poignant, humorous story about a family struggling with isolation and poverty. Deaf nine-year-old Frankie (Jack McElhone) only knows his dad through the letters they exchange. Frankie reads each new letter reverently, saving the exotic stamps his dad sends from the different ports he visits as a sailor on the Accra, and loves the sea just as he thinks his dad must. But Frankie's mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), has a secret--she's the one writing the letters and sending them from a post office. When she reads that the Accra is coming...
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to Glasgow, Lizzie must decide if it's time to tell Frankie the truth, or find a man (Gerard Butler) to pretend to be his father for one day.

Intimately focused and carefully told, Dear Frankie slowly unwinds its coiled story to reveal the reason behind Lizzie's well-meaning deception. The performances are universally stellar. Mortimer combines steely determination with glimpses of vulnerability, Butler is a perfect combination of hesitation warming to genuine affection, and McElhone steals the show in a spot-on performance as a normal boy longing for his dad. Dear Frankie offers a moving, uplifting look at families and the complicated love at the heart of each one.
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Directed by Shona Auerbach, Dear Frankie revolves around nine-year-old Frankie (Jack McElhone) and his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer). The mother and son duo have been on the run for as long as Frankie, who has been deaf for years, can remember. In an effort to protect Frankie from the truth -- that a psychotic father, whose physical abuse caused his hearing loss, is at the root of their constant need to move from one home to the next -- Lizzie pens a series of letters from Frankie's "father" in hopes of assuaging his curiosity. However, when Frankie becomes convinced that his father is taking a break from his e...
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xotic adventures and making his way back home, Lizzie must make a tough decision: find another way to pacify Frankie's desire to meet his father or tell him the awful truth.
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Zo lang als de negen jaar oude Frankie zich kan herineren is hij al op pad met zijn moeder. Sinds kort wonen ze in een Schots kust plaatsje. Omdat ze haar dove zoon wil beschermen tegen de waarheid vertelt Lizzie hem dat zijn vader op zee op de HMS Acra vaart. Elke paar weken schrijft Lizzie Frankie nep brieven van zijn vader, waarin ze hem vertelt over verzonnen avonturen in exotische landen. Frankie houdt het schip nauw in de gaten en ontdekt op een gegeven moment dat het schip op weg naar huis is. Nu de HMS Acra het stadje nadert moet Lizzie beslissen of ze Frankie de waarheid gaat vertellen of dat ze...
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de perfecte vreemdeling moet vinden om voor één dag Frankie's vader te spelen.
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