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jayes_musings) wrote2005-07-07 04:46 pm
jayes_musings) wrote2005-07-07 04:46 pm
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Dear Frankie
Just got finished watching this...and OMG..
I've been wanting to see this ever since I heard about it, which was some time ago. Of course, as it's only a small, independent film with limited release, it never made it over here, but I snapped up the DVD as soon as I could get my hands on it.
It's just as wonderful as all the reviews I've read. And the end...I'd heard you'd see it and feel a mix of feeling good and feeling sad, and it's so true. It is such a sweet film, but never overly so. Jack McElhone, who plays Frankie is just a lovely little boy, but very different from many you see in films. He's a real kid who happens to be deaf. And Emily Mortimer is just wonderful, she's there coping with a horrible situation, trying to raise and protect Frankie, but it's those moments where she can afford to break down where she really comes across as a real person and not just a mother.
And Gerry...he is just lovely as the man Frankie's mum hires to play his dad. He's intriguing, and he just wins you over from a man just doing this for the money to caring for Frankie, just as Frankie won him over.
I probably would never have heard of this film if Gerry hadn't been in it, but it's one of those films, that is just wonderful, and I would have loved it with even someone else in instead. Too few films are like that anymore. It just draws you in.
Just lovely.
I've been wanting to see this ever since I heard about it, which was some time ago. Of course, as it's only a small, independent film with limited release, it never made it over here, but I snapped up the DVD as soon as I could get my hands on it.
It's just as wonderful as all the reviews I've read. And the end...I'd heard you'd see it and feel a mix of feeling good and feeling sad, and it's so true. It is such a sweet film, but never overly so. Jack McElhone, who plays Frankie is just a lovely little boy, but very different from many you see in films. He's a real kid who happens to be deaf. And Emily Mortimer is just wonderful, she's there coping with a horrible situation, trying to raise and protect Frankie, but it's those moments where she can afford to break down where she really comes across as a real person and not just a mother.
And Gerry...he is just lovely as the man Frankie's mum hires to play his dad. He's intriguing, and he just wins you over from a man just doing this for the money to caring for Frankie, just as Frankie won him over.
I probably would never have heard of this film if Gerry hadn't been in it, but it's one of those films, that is just wonderful, and I would have loved it with even someone else in instead. Too few films are like that anymore. It just draws you in.
Just lovely.