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Title: DEAR FRANKIE

Reference number: 6835

Date: 2004

Director: [d. Shona Auerbach]

Sponsor: [ Pathé Pictures Ltd, Scottish Screen]

Producer: Caroline Wood

Production company: [ Scorpio Films, Sigma Films]

Sound: sound

Certificate: 12A

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 102.00 minsc

Description: Lizzie has told her nine-year old son Frankie that his father is at sea. Then one day she discovers to her horror that the boat she has invented is docking in a nearby port. Desperate to protect Frankie from the truth, she hires a stranger for the day to be his dad.
[synopsis from Scottish Screen Feature Films 2005 brochure]

Also known under UK working title NATURAL HISTORY.

Catalogued from secondary sources at Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com. Last accessed 8/2/2005.

Trailer is also preserved by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: [w. Andrea Gibb

Cast (in credits order)
Emily Mortimer .... Lizzie Morrison
Gerard Butler .... The Stranger
Sharon Small .... Marie
Jack McElhone .... Frankie Morrison
Mary Riggans .... Nell Morrison
Sean Brown .... Ricky Munroe
Jayd Johnson .... Catriona Murray
John Kazek .... Ally
Katy Murphy .... Miss MacKenzie
Anna Hepburn .... Mrs. Wallace
Cal Macaninch .... Davey Morrison
Sophie Main .... Serious Girl
Anne Marie Timoney .... Janet
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Rony Bridges .... Postmaster
Andrea Gibb .... Waitress]

CREW
[p. Caroline Wood
co-producer Gillian Berrie , Matthew T. Gannon
exec. p. Stephen Evans, Angus Finney, François Ivernel , Cameron McCracken, Duncan Reid
line producer Brian Kaczynski
orig. m. Alex Heffes
cinemat. Shona Auerbach
film. ed. Oral Norrie Ottey
casting Des Hamilton
p. design Jennifer Kernke
art d. Margaret Horspool
costume design Carole K. Millar
make-up designer Irene Napier
1st ass. d. Joe Geary
2nd ass. d. Michael Queen
3rd ass. d. Marissa Carrera
props Tristan Carlisle-Kitz
construction manager Colin H. Fraser
art dept. ass. Caroline McDonald
property master Bob Orr
sd. rec. Peter Brill
sd. FX ed. Mike Grimes
2nd sd. rerecording mixer Dan Johnson
sd. rerecording mixer Hugh Johnson
boom operator Alastair Mason
supervising sd. ed. Jeremy Price
m. mixer Andy Richards
supervising dialogue ed. Hilary Wyatt
post-production coordinator Nicola Armstrong
p. coordinator Alison Campbell
sc. supervisor Sue Clegg
casting associate Kahleen Crawford
still ph. Neil Davidson
camera operator Graeme Dunn
1st ass. ed. Steven Forrester
post-production supervisor Alistair Hopkins
p. runner Ranald Maclean
gaffer Paul McGeachan
special thanks to Natasha Ross
ass. coordinator Michael Wilson
special FX Capital FX
telecine transfers Arion Facilities
negative cutting Cutting Edge]

Shotlist: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

[Summary written by Pathe, and copied from Internet Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com]


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