a movie rec, some John Hughes ramble, and my attempts to make Mary Stuart Masterson a lesbian

[kattahj]

I'm going to give you a movie recommendation, and I need you to read carefully, because at a first glance, this film seems very dismissable.

The film in question is Dear Frankie, a British drama from 2004. Frankie is a nine-year-old deaf boy who lives with his mother Lizzie and his grandmother, constantly moving from one place to another. The

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[utopian_sky]

I love Dear Frankie!! Such a wonderful movie! I haven't seen it in a long while and now I can't because I lent it to a classmate just the other day. :-S

[kattahj]

*cough* Well, there's always ways to see a movie. ;-)

And I'm glad to hear you love it too. It really touched me a LOT.

[eponine119]

Netflix keeps recommending Dear Frankie to me. I value your opinion more than theirs, so maybe I'll give it a try.

[kattahj]

Ooh, I count for more than Netflix! *grin* It's a sweet film; I don't think you'll be disappointed.

[sarcasticwriter]

OMG, Dear Frankie was great! That scene where Lizzie tells the Stranger how Frankie came to his condition - Gerard Butler's performance in that scene made me a fan of his for life! He executes an amazing shift of disbelief, horror, and grief that almost made me swoon right there in the theater. Which I guess sound weird, because the reaction of a man hearing a tragic story shouldn't be sexy. But...I don't know. It just made him seen so profoundly good. And somehow that goodness and kindness was ridiculously sexy.

...

I'm weird.

[kattahj]

Nah, sounds perfectly normal to me. And yeah, his reaction there was perfect. I love how there are so many moments in the movie where people don't say what they're thinking, just show it. The traditional Hollywood sapfest would have had him rambling about the horribleness of it all.