Dear Frankie

Touching, sentimental stories are sometimes hard to transfer to the screen, either the story doesn't resonate with the audience or the actors are just not the right fit for the characters. But for whatever reasons there aren't a whole lot out there that pull on your heartstrings and leave you weeping by the end. This story will bring a tear to your eye and leave you wondering why you hadn't heard of this film before. The true life situations that are throughout the film keeps the story based in so much reality that it ends up sounding like something you could have read or heard on the news. The mother's idea of writing letters to her son in the guise of the father seems a little far-fetched, but how far would you go to make your child happy and hopeful.
A young mother on the run for nine years, from an abusive husband, has been telling her deaf son that his father in a sailor on a ship at sea, but when that ship docks in a harbor, not to far from where they live, she must find a man to impersonate the father that her son has never seen. Even with his lose of hearing Frankie, the young boy, comes across as the smartest person in the story, and by the end you realize that he 's the one that has total control in his life, more than the adults that he's surrounded by. The actors in this little drama come off with so much realism that you want to reach out and help them in any way you can, but then you feel anguish when things don't go the way they want.
From beginning to end this movie takes you on a roller coaster of emotions, from pity and anger to joy and sadness, and by the conclusion you're just left with feeling of hope. I had never heard of this film before, but once I saw the trailer on another DVD I thought it might be interesting to give it a try. These are the kinds of movies I like to recommend to people because it's the kind of film that you can sit watch with your family and, all together learn something from.