Dear Frankie, your mom is pulling one over on you. Well, Emily Mortimer has the best intentions when she crafts a ruse for her precocious, deaf son (10-year-old Jack McElhone), telling him that his father is a sailor willing but unable to return home. She even writes fake responses to kid’s letters. And when the imaginary ship of her lie is revealed as real–and about to dock in their small Scottish town!–she enlists a hunky stranger (Gerard Butler) to masquerade as dad. Suffice to say, complications ensue. To say more would ruin the film’s well-crafted surprises. Not surprising, though, and just as delicious are the tight, un-mushy screenplay, understated performances and an elegant score that steer this unusually poignant movie into the larger truths of family life. And that’s no lie.
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