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- Davey dies, and Lizzie tells Frankie. She goes to stop payment on the PO box where she'd directed all Frankie's letters, and finds one last letter from Frankie... to the stranger, with an acknowledgement that his "real Da" has died. He hopes the stranger will visit them again.
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Mar 10, 2005 · At the end of the day, Davey tells Lizzie and Frankie that his ship isn’t sailing tomorrow after all — he’ll be able to spend another day with his son. This wasn’t part of the deal. But then Davey didn’t guess how much he would grow to feel about the boy, and his mother.
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At the door, after a long pause together, Lizzie and the stranger kiss goodbye. After he leaves, she discovers he has returned her payment, stuffed into her coat pocket. Sometime later, Lizzie learns that her husband is terminally ill, and reluctantly visits the hospital without Frankie.
When Lizzie admits her predicament -- to find a total stranger to act as Frankie's Da for one day -- to her friend (and boss) Marie, Marie provides her a name and number. Lizzie meets the man, and when he agrees to the charade she hands him all the letters from Frankie to his Da.
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Aug 26, 2014 · The Stranger has asked Frankie to chaperone a new date – they have had their day to resolve his bet and now it is her turn. This notion certainly confirms Frankie has known all along, for his mother said his father would see him, but not her.
Aug 21, 2004 · Though there’s more naked emotional manhandling here than really should be proper, Dear Frankie comes out the other end with most of its dignity intact. This is mostly due to the solid work exhibited by everybody involved (especially Auerbach, who’s also responsible for the painterly cinematography), not to mention that the story ...
Debut director Shona Auerbach's homegrown film is a small tale that writes of bigger things to come. Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) continues to move from one Scottish town to the next, apparently to wherever she can find work and afford a place to live.
Dear Frankie: Directed by Shona Auerbach. With Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Mary Riggans, Sharon Small. After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.
