Dear Frankie (DVD)

This is a thoroughly moving story! It tells of Frankie a young deaf boy, living with his mother Lizzie. They have been on the run from Frankie's father, although Frankie doesn't know this. They eventaully settle in a port town. To protect him from the stigma of having no father on the scene, Lizzie has told Frankie that his father is a seaman. She has even concocted an elaborate scheme. Frankie believes, it would seem, that his Father is a seaman on the ship 'Accra'. He receives letters from his father every so often, which he dutifully replies to - he also tracks the ships progress around the world by sticking pins into his map. The actuality is ...  Read the complete review

Dear Frankie tells the story of a young woman, called Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), who moves to Glasgow with her nine year old, deaf son (Jack McElhone) and her mother (Mary Riggans) who smokes like a chimney. From early on in the film we are led to believe that Lizzie and her family have moved around quite a lot. In one of Frankie's letters that he writes to his absent father who he has never seen he tells him that another move is on the way and his grandmother thinks it will kill her. At first we don't know the reason why the family has moved so many times or why Frankie's father is away but we sense that there is a strange story behind all of this. ...  Read the complete review

There's an old saying that goes: 'If women told the truth then the whole world would crack apart', meaning there are some things women have done or know about that are so shocking they just have to keep those things to themselves for the good of others. One of those secrets is that two out of every ten kids born are not necessarily the sons of the incumbent father; he oblivious to that fact, Princess Diana and Prince Harry coming to mind. How ever much they love their other half, sometimes women may not love his genes, looks and brains! It's believed that one-in-ten kids in the north of England have never met their real father, and that is the pretext of this excellent ...  Read the complete review