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Format: Laserdisc
May 1996
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
Closed Captioned
100 min. |
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Movie Description
This warm drama follows the tale of a beautiful French woman who flees to Ireland during World War II and gives birth to a dwarf son. The son grows up to be a novelist whose work recounts his mother's romances with an Irish customs officer and an American G.I., and whose memories provide the film's flashback structure. Based on Chet Raymo's "The Dork of Cork."
Synopsis
This quirky Irish tale recounts the strange events in the lives of Frank Bois, a dwarf, and his mother Bernadette. Flashbacks show how the pregnant Bernadette sneaked into Ireland on a U.S. war ship, and her subsequent affair with a married man named Jack Kelly. Kelly, who became a father figure to Frankie, taught the boy about the cosmos and heavenly bodies (hence Frank's celestial nickname), which became Frankie's lifelong passion. But his love of the stars couldn't save him from the physical and emotional hardships caused by his dwarfism here on Earth.
Film Notes
Shown at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival.
Released theatrically in the USA November 22, 1995.
Additional credits: Charlotte Somers and Suzanne Nicell (assistant directors); David Walley (art director).
Shot on location in Ireland.
Industry Reviews
"...Parillaud is suitably enigmatic, Byrne conveys an innate decency..."
Variety - Leonard Klady (09/18/1995)
"...The peculiarity of the story makes it somehow convincing: These are not the formulas of fiction, but the astonishing surprises that life has in store..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (01/19/1996)
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