I know, this is an old movie, i bought it only because it said in the cover : “Winner of something, official selection of something..”

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And turned out, after several years of putting it out somewhere, waiting for the lot of free hours or might be just the mood of watching, i finally did it last holiday, and.. i must say, it’s one of the most heartwarming, touching film i’ve ever seen.

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It’s theme story is about a boy who’s longing for a father. And i always got a thing for a film about father-son relationship. Coz, maybe in some level i do too.. And you gotta watch it too. Here’s the plot :

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In Scotland, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) is constantly moving from town to town with her nine year old son Frankie (Jack McElhone) and her mother Nell (Mary Riggans) escaping from her husband. Frankie is a very intelligent deaf boy, and the protective Lizzie invented that his father is a sailor of the vessel “ACCRA”, traveling though the most different countries and permanently writing to Frankie, telling his adventures. Frankie tracks the route of the vessel in a map, and when the vessel is scheduled to arrive in their coastal town, Lizzie decides to hire a stranger (Gerard Butler) to act as if he were Frankie’s father for one day.

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Now, if after watching the film you are questioning whether the actor who plays frankie is really deaf or not, you gotta be surprised… Find the answer in imdb..

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I watched another film with the same theme only this time is about a grown up woman with her birth mother. I’ll post the thing soon. Salman Rushdie is playing a cameo.