Английская Википедия:Frankie Starlight
Шаблон:Infobox film Frankie Starlight is a 1995 drama–romantic war film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The screenplay was written by Ronan O'Leary and Chet Raymo,[1] based on the internationally best-selling novel The Dork of Cork by Raymo.[2]
Plot
Frank Bois writes a successful first novel and finds himself looking back over his life. His mother Bernadette (Parillaud) was a French woman who, after the death of her friends and family in World War II, hid herself aboard an Allied war ship heading to Ireland, where she exchanged sexual favors for silence among the soldiers who found her on board. A nice customs agent, Jack Kelly (Byrne), allowed Bernadette to enter Ireland illegally, and they soon became a couple, even though she was already pregnant from one of the soldiers from the ship.
Bernadette gave birth to Frankie (Alan Pentony), who suffered from dwarfism. As he grew older, Frankie developed romantic feelings for Jack's daughter Emma (Georgina Cates), who did not share his feelings, while Jack taught astronomy to Frankie. Eventually, Bernadette met Terry Klout (Dillon), an American soldier she had met on the war ship, who offered to marry her. Bernadette and Frankie went with Terry to his home in Texas, but both mother and son felt they didn't belong, so they returned to the Irish home they loved. An older Bernadette eventually committed suicide, and Frank then used his life as source material for his writing.
Principal cast
- Gabriel Byrne as Jack Kelly
- Anne Parillaud as Bernadette
- Matt Dillon as Terry Klout
- Corban Walker as Frank Bois
- Rudi Davies as Emma
- Georgina Cates as Young Emma
- Dearbhla Molloy as Effa Kelly
Critical reception
Janet Maslin of The New York Times thought the film was flawed but decent and did not think highly of Parillaud's acting: Шаблон:Cquote
References
External links
- Английская Википедия
- 1995 films
- Films scored by Elmer Bernstein
- Films based on American novels
- Films set in the 1940s
- Films set in Ireland
- Films set in Texas
- Films shot in London
- Films shot in the Republic of Ireland
- Films shot in Texas
- Films directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg
- Films about mother–son relationships
- 1990s English-language films
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