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Dear Frankie Review – People Magazine
CRITIC'S CHOICE A young deaf boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), tracks on a map the peregrinations of the merchant ship on which his mother (Mortimer) has told him his absent father is working. He eagerly pores over the letters that arrive for him from exotic foreign...
Dear Frankie Review –
Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach, UK 2004, 104mins) There is a quiet, yet distinct “once upon a time” quality at the heart of Shona Auerbach’s likeable, though uneven, debut feature, which is as much about the relationship of a young, single-mom and her deaf-mute son as...
BETTER TAKE A HANKY TO ‘FRANKIE’
FRANKIE Morrison, age 9, is deaf and doesn't speak, but he's far from dumb. He's a budding marine biologist growing up in Glasgow who pins a world map to the wall to chart the location of his father, a sailor who writes him regularly and whose ship, the Accra, is...
Dear Frankie Review – E Online
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...
A mother’s love knows no bounds
DEAR FRANKIE. With Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone. Director Shona Auerbach. (1:45) At Angelika, Lincoln Square. PG: Language. It sounds like the scenario for a sitcom: Single mother of deaf kid pays stranger to be father for a day - entanglements ensue....
Her ship comes in and a sexy stranger plays dad to her lad
Lizzie, a single mom desperate for a man in the deeply moving domestic drama "Dear Frankie," anxiously scans the faces of every male at a Glasgow pub. As Lizzie, Emily Mortimer uses her dark, expressive eyes to register dismay at a bland balding patron followed by...
A working-class heartwarmer
Set in a Scottish port city, 'Dear Frankie' is infused with tender family feeling. "Dear Frankie" stars Emily Mortimer as a single mother who creates a make-believe dad to compensate for the one her 9-year-old son has already got. Lizzie (Mortimer), Frankie (Jack...
Dear Frankie – People Magazine Review
CRITIC'S CHOICE DRAMA A young deaf boy, Frankie (Jack McElhone), tracks on a map the peregrinations of the merchant ship on which his mother (Mortimer) has told him his absent father is working. He eagerly pores over the letters that arrive for him from exotic foreign...
‘Dear Frankie’ a tender tale to discover and cherish
THE OPENING MOMENTS of director Shona Auerbach's "Dear Frankie" reflect the love and attention the filmmakers clearly lavished on this wondrous little gem: A boy carefully packs his few treasures up in newspapers and a cardboard box as his family prepares to move. In...
FEEL-GOOD ‘FRANKIE’ A LITTLE TOO FLAT
Moving performances almost overcome emotional conceits in tender drama about a boy and his fake father Sometimes no amount of good acting can make a film hold your interest. "Dear Frankie" stars newcomer Jack McElhone as 10-year-old Frankie, a deaf Scottish lad who...
BUTLER WATCHES LIGHTNING STRIKE A MAN IN AUSTRALIA
Scottish actor GERARD BUTLER had a shocking experience during his recent trip to Australia, when he saw a man get struck by lightning. The PHANTOM OF THE OPERA star took a break and travelled around Australia after a tour of Asia, and he was stunned when a rainy day...
DEAR FRANKIE – LA City Beat
So much of our sense of contemporary Glasgow has come from the films of Ken Loach that one initially reacts to first-time feature director Shona Auerbach and writer Andrea Gibb as interlopers. However, Dear Frankie is neither facsimile of, nor poor cousin to, Loach’s...
Dear Frankie Review – SF Guardian
Dear Frankie Shona Auerbach's first feature is a Scottish seriocomedy that's bittersweet but perhaps just a little too low-key for its own good. Nine-year-old Frankie (Jake McElhone), his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), and grandmother Nell (Mary Riggans) are...
EMBRACING MOTHERHOOD
A little back story before the focus moves to the star of this yarn, the lovely and amazing Emily Mortimer. That's not showbiz puffery -- it's how she was described in a film with those adjectives in the title. Mortimer's new movie, "Dear Frankie," was set to be in...
Double dose of Beowulf set to run rings round rivals
He is the original action hero, a fearless Norse warrior who slew a vicious troll and helped inspire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. And he is coming to a cinema near you. The race to turn Beowulf, the hero of the first great poem written in English, into a box-office...
Film notoriety awaits Beowulf
He is the original action hero, a fearless Norse warrior who slew a murderous troll and helped inspire Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. And he is coming to a multiplex near you. The race to turn Beowulf, the hero of the first great written English poem, into a box-office...
Beowulf Cuts Loose
s Gerald Butle worth 900 million krour? Visitors to Skógar have up until now usually come in small groups and go there for the stunning Skógarfoss waterfall or visiting the Skógar Folk Museum. These days, however, hovering around the waterfall you will find hundreds...
Interview with Beowulf and Grendel Screenwriter Andrew Rai Berzins
Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. M&C talked to Andrew Berzins, who adapted the poem Beowulf for the forthcoming Beowulf and Grendel movie. He chats about the problems of adapting such a poem, the relevancy of...
Iceland Films
Chances are most Canadians know very little about the ancient or even modern history of the North Atlantic island called Iceland. But a Toronto-based, Iceland-born movie director is hoping change all of that next year as he brings an early chapter of Iceland's ancient...
Very First Stills of Gerard Butler as Beowulf
We have the very first look at Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera) as Beowulf, from the forthcoming Beowulf and Grendel. You can see two still in the gallery for the movie, here. The second one show Beowulf fighting off some theives. We also had a peek at some more...