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To spare her fatherless son's feelings, a mother writes letters to her son pretending to be his seafaring father. Then she must hire a man to be his father when the boy is determined to meet him.
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Deaf nine-year-old Frankie (McElhone) only knows his dad through the letters they exchange. Frankie reads each new letter reverently, saving the exotic stamps his dad sends from the different ports he visits as a sailor on the Accra, and loves the sea just as he thinks his dad must. But Frankie's mother, Lizzie (Mortimer), has a secret - she's the one writing the letters and sending them from a post office. When she reads that the Accra is coming to Glasgow, Lizzie must decide if it's time to tell Frankie the truth, or find a man (Butler) to pretend to be his father for one day. Intimately focused and carefully told, Dear Frankie slowly unwinds its coiled story to reveal the reason behind Lizzie's well-meaning deception.
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