Dear Frankie

• Jack McElhone: Frankie
• Emily Mortimer: Lizzy
• Gerard Butler: The stranger

Dear Frankie (Original Title: Dear Frankie ) is a British film drama about a family and the relationship of a boy to his absent father.

Action

Since the deaf Frankie was a little boy, he moved with his mother Lizzy from place to place. They have just moved to a small Scottish port town.

From his father Frankie only receives letters from the HMS Accra, on which he has hired as a sailor. For years he has not seen him. But Frankie's mother has a secret: It is not his father, who wrote the letters, but the mother, who is constantly on the run from her violent husband.

But at their current residence occurred something that Frankie's mother did not expect. The HMS Accra should arrive in a few days in the harbor, and Frankie is very excited to see his father again. Lizzy has to make a decision and so they hired a stranger to play Frankie 's father for a day.

Reviews

" Dear Frankie tells a touching story, which fortunately does not turn into kitsch. [ ... ] Shona Auerbach manages a careful film by an intimate relationship between mother and child, who sailed around the cliffs of exaggerated melodrama and sheer sentimentality hair sharp. [ ... ] Beneficial here is that the debutante director is less inclined to dialogue than on symbols, gestures and moods. A stroke of luck is that the film is supported by convincing performer. The viewer is completely riddled neither the sign language of Frankie, yet he is confronted with the terrible details of the family drama. "