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Dear Frankie is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach and starring Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, and Sharon Small. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts her to perpetuate a deception designed to protect him from the truth about his father.
- $2,980,136
- Alex Heffes
- Caroline Wood
- Pathé
Apr 15, 2005 · 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.
- Shona Auerbach
- 2 min
Mar 4, 2005 · 82% Tomatometer 112 Reviews 90% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Frankie (Jack McElhone) does not know his father because his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), ran away from the abusive lout when ...
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- Shona Auerbach
- PG-13
- Emily Mortimer
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Summaries. 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. Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from ...
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Mar 10, 2005 · A movie like this is all in the details. The director, Shona Auerbach, and her writer, Andrea Gibb, see Lizzie, Frankie and his grandmother not as archetypes in a formula, but as very particular, cautious, wounded people, living just a step above poverty, precariously shielding themselves from a violent past.
