This movie is fantastic. Jack is a super young actor and does a great job portraying a deaf boy in this movie.

My Movie Rating: 10 / 10

I have hardly ever seen a character portrayal as genuine and profound as in this movie. Emily Mortimer is the archetype of the caring and protective mom who sacrifices everything she has to protect her son and to enable him to live a decent life amidst austere conditions.

Frankie stands at the movie's center, he carries the emotional and sensual burden. Jack McElhone has a subtle and very gentle manner that makes his character shine. Frankie's sensibility combined with his fragility and the way McElhone is able to transmit the emotional strains of both his hearing disability and the yearning for his father create an atmosphere of entire authenticity and integrates the viewer into this valid depiction of one family's struggle.

Gerard Butler is very inapproachable and callous in the first place. At imdb, some criticised the corny depiction of him gradually developing a real bond towards the boy and eventually his mom. I have to rebut this reproach. There is hardly any movie which has a more sincere and authentic development as featured in Dear Frankie. He responds to Frankie in the same diffident manner that composes his character. He is able to transmit both an emotional development and a sincere and authentic portrayal of a lonesome character who gradually approaches to the unyielding affection of Frankie. The scene in which Butler and Mortimer walk along the wharf and engage in a realistic conversation is a brilliant example of the perfect and subtle interaction between the main characters. Butler is as firm as his role demands, yet still able to show a soft and sentimental edge when interacting with Frankie.

The story is simple but incredibly strong, thus following the premise of classic film-making. The setting is the Scottish seaside. From the angle of socio-cultural criticism, the depiction of the setting is a requisite for the profound authenticity the movie is able to deliver. The surrounding determines the characters and shows the harshness of life in Scotland. Thus Frankie, shy and fragile as he is portrayed, symbolizes the strength of individual determination and the power of dreams.

Dear Frankie is a wonderful accomplishment in its depiction of the dreams and hopes of a young boy, in its authentic interpersonal affiliations and in its honest approach to love and the relationship between individuals who are trying to make each other's life better.

My Movie Rating: 10 / 10

Yes I have to agree it is a beautiful movie and I did fall in love with the boy character. There are many charming boy actors but this boy is pure dynamite in his very quiet way.

My Movie Rating: 10 / 10