A simple and heartwarming story about the love a mother has for her son and what she would do to protect him.
Frankie is a 9-year-old deaf boy who has never, to his recollection, met his father. He writes to him on a weekly bases not knowing that his mother has been retrieving his letters and writing back to him in his fathers stead. His mother can not stop the hoax, she feels it is the only way she gets to hear Frankie’s true voice. One day it all comes to head when his dad’s boat is to come into harbor and she is faced with either telling him the truth about his dad or hiring a stranger for the weekend to play dad. She chose the latter getting Gerard Butler’s character to play Frankie’s dad for a small sum. As the relationship evolves between Frankie and his fake dad, there is another one forming between mom and the impostor. The spark of romance is a very faint side note that takes way to long to fire up and dies down as soon as he leaves at the end of the film.
Dear Frankie
2 Stars
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A simple and heartwarming story about the love a mother has for her son and what she would do to protect him.
Frankie is a 9-year-old deaf boy who has never, to his recollection, met his father. He writes to him on a weekly bases not knowing that his mother has been retrieving his letters and writing back to him in his fathers stead. His mother can not stop the hoax, she feels it is the only way she gets to hear Frankie’s true voice. One day it all comes to head when his dad’s boat is to come into harbor and she is faced with either telling him the truth about his dad or hiring a stranger for the weekend to play dad. She chose the latter getting Gerard Butler’s character to play Frankie’s dad for a small sum. As the relationship evolves between Frankie and his fake dad, there is another one forming between mom and the impostor. The spark of romance is a very faint side note that takes way to long to fire up and dies down as soon as he leaves at the end of the film.
Wanting more from the characters and their relationships and not getting it makes this film a little slow and too simplistic in it’s story telling. Dear Frankie was an okay story that could have been a wonderful bang, but fizzles out to a quiet snap. Give us love, give us passion, give us the true grit we expect from independent films and the Scottish.