Frankie Starlight
7 /10 1 Votes7
Duration Language English | 6.8/10 Genre Drama, Romance, War Country USA UK Ireland France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 22 November 1995 Cast Matt Dillon (Terry Klout), Corban Walker (Frank Bois), Gabriel Byrne (Jack Kelly), Anne Parillaud (Bernadette), Niall Tóibín (Handy Paige), Owen Roe (Senior Customs Officer)Similar movies Interstellar , The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , Let's Be Cops , Toy Story , Looper , The Fault in Our Stars Tagline Sometimes the brightest star is the one that shines within. |
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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, based on the internationally best-selling novel The Dork of Cork by Raymo.
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Frankie starlight 1995
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 (Pentony), who suffered from dwarfism. As he grew older, Frankie developed romantic feelings for Jack's daughter Emma (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.
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:


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