The girls and I saw a trailer for the movie Dear Frankie. The girls started hollering when they recognized Gerard Butler from The Phantom of the Opera. We rented the movie from Netflix and we loved it!! Here's a synopsis: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum...
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Conference Call Transcript – February 10, 2007
Participants: GerardButlerAngels - Linda GerardButlerGALS - Dayna Celtic Hearts - Kelly The Butler Did It – Ashley GerardButler.Net – Tamara Warner Bros. - Susan Gerard Butler Gerry: (in funny “Borat” accent) Hello? This is Gerard Butler. Honestly, I wouldn’t lie....
A New Years Message from Gerry
[b Full audio message can be downloaded at the link above.[/b Hello everybody, welcome to Gerard Butler.Net, GB.Net. To all the tarts and um I don’t know what the names of the tart men are. Tartmen or something? Tartan man men? Anyway, a happy new year to everybody...
Live Evil
Acting, music and special effects help ‘Dracula’ rise to the occasion at Corvallis Community Theatre Damian Arlyn seems well aware of the immense cinematic tradition that looms over him in his most recent endeavor as director of “Dracula” for Corvallis Community...
ET woman gets royal treatment in Scotland
Linda Williams turned into a celebrity while on vacation in Scotland. People in Greenock, a small town close to Glasgow, greeted her when she entered shops. A taxi driver recognized her, and the mayor provost gave her an official welcome. They had seen her picture in...
A FILM fan who fell in love with Inverclyde’s scenery
A FILM fan who fell in love with Inverclyde's scenery because of a movie has paid a visit to the area. Catherine Groger, from near Seattle in America, came to Greenock and Gourock to visit the setting for the film Dear Frankie. The movie, written by Greenock...
Movie is dear to our hearts
TWO movie fans from America are to visit Inverclyde because their favourite film was shot here. The girls, from California and Texas, are huge fans of the film Dear Frankie and its heartthrob star Gerard Butler and wanted to soak up the atmosphere of the movie by...
EL rates the top 10 movies of 2005
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SCOT GERRY TO STAR IN POUNDS 15M DRACULA FILM
RISING Scots actor Gerry Butler is to star as Count Dracula in a new pounds 15million movie. Master of horror Wes Craven - director of Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream trilogy - is behind the Hollywood remake. The role is a major break for 30-year-old Butler,...
BITING BACK!
Dracula has risen from the dead. Again. Cinema's most famous orthodontically-challenged character gets another bite at the cherry with the release of 'Dracula 2001'. This time round, the filmmakers get round the problem of having a pasty vampire by casting a Scotsman,...
Gerard gets his fangs at the ready
Dracula 2001 is a modern-day interpretation of the myth, repackaging the story for a young audience. I play Count Dracula, who has been interred for 100 years until thieves steal his coffin from a London vault. He is unleashed in New Orleans where he returns to his...
Obscure film deserves an audience
This independent foreign film explores a family's problems. You've got to love it when you discover a video you've never heard of before, the one just waiting to be given a chance to tug at your heart. That's what happened with "Dear Frankie," an online rental my wife...
My Favorite Films of 2005
I’ll always remember 2005 as the year I finally got to see The Producers. Being the world’s most avid movie musical fan, I became excited the moment I heard about plans to bring the Tony-winning play to the big screen. And I was not disappointed. How often do viewers...
Critics’ Choice: Top Movies of 2005
What a less-than-memorable year in film it has been! But Crosswalk.com's movie critics have managed to find something good to say about what has hit the silver screen in the past 12 months. Find out which films they thought deserved a ticket in 2005. ... BATMAN BEGINS...
Sandro’s Movie Crackers
Our Hollywood correspondent Sandro Monetti has seen more than a hundred films this year in the service of Sky Showbiz and here he ranks them all in order. So, what gets his vote? Outrageous comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin comes out on top, ahead of British fatherless...
‘Dear Andrea, your film is one of year’s best’
A GREENOCK writer says she is delighted an American critic has rated her movie his favourite of 2005. Andrea Gibb, who penned the script for Dear Frankie, said she was flattered that David Germain, a writer for the Associated Press agency, had backed the movie....
World films link Jakarta to Cannes
Every May, the biggest film festival in the world, Festival de Cannes, opens to offer great films, international stars and glamour. In the past two years, the festival has premiered what have come to be remembered as some of the world's great, if not best,...
US critic names Scots film ‘movie of the year’
It is a low-budget Scottish film about a deaf boy from the west coast of Scotland, shot on a shoestring and given a critical mauling from Britain's top film writers. But a year after it was released in the UK, Dear Frankie has been named as the film of the year by one...
AP Film Critics’ Top 10 Lists
As film critics, we had a problem this year. There were too many great movies to choose from and only 10 spots on our best-of lists. After much soul-searching and paring, here's what we came up with - the absolute best of the best. The top 10 films of 2005, according...
Movie Q&A: Inspiring mystery singer named
Q: I saw a preview on a rented movie for a film about a mother who tells her son his father is at sea on a certain boat and writes a letter to him from the supposed father. When this boat is supposed to come home she has to come up with a father, so she hires one. I...
Post-Brosnan, Bond is a tough suit to fill
With production set to begin in January on the 21st Bond picture, "Casino Royale," the dashing movie hero who dates back to the '60s might as well be missing in action. The latest Bond film, "Die Another Day," starring Pierce Brosnan, was released by MGM in 2002. But...
He Can Relate to Roles That Have Mysteries
He played the lead role in a British film, “Dear Frankie,” (directed by Shona Auerbach) which is currently being shown in theaters. It is a tale of love within a family, taking place in a seaside town, near Glasgow. A mother of a boy with a hearing impairment...
Premi: “Dear Frankie” si aggiudica il premio “Percorsi creativi 2005”
Il film “Dear Frankie” di Shona Auerbach ha vinto il premio “Percorsi Creativi 2005” promosso dai Cinecircoli Giovanili Socioculturali nell’ambito del Giffoni Film Festival. Il riconoscimento è stato assegnato da una giuria composta da insegnanti ed operatori...
What’s new on video
("Dear Frankie." Miramax. DVD. 106 min. Rated PG-13. $29.99. In stores July 5. Grade: B+.) "Dear Frankie" is the sort of film that would never have been made by an American studio. It's too warm, too sweet _ too devoid of explosions. Start with the bittersweet...
Improbable tale leaves family with hope
There are things that happen in real life, and there are things that only happen in the movies. If the latter sometimes seem plausible, chalk it up to the power of cinema to make us believe the unbelievable. "Dear Frankie" makes a convincing case that a mother who...