Dear Frankie

Movie (2004)

Emily Mortimer stars in this heart-warming drama as devoted single mother Lizzie, who is determined that her son Frankie will not learn the truth about his abusive father. She concocts a story that her husband is a sailor travelling the world, even faking letters to Frankie to make the lad believe his dad cares. But when the ship she claims he is sailing on docks in their hometown, Lizzie is forced to enlist the aid of a stranger to play the role of Frankie's father for one day. Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone and Sharon Small also star