Do you guys remember that guy called Gerard Butler? Yeah, the one who stared in several indie films and played Dracula in Dracula 2000? Well this is him in his pre-heart-throb days, or you can say that this was the movie that began that painful chain of events. The movie takes place in Scotland (Ga-der) where a single mom is mysteriously running from her abusive husband all across Scotland, dragging her young/def son named Frankie along with her. Now while this lovely bunch of Scottish trash are running around, Frankie is under the impression that the reason why they're traveling so much is because they want to be around for when the father's boat docks, and the mom is feeding him these lies by pretending to be the father and sending him letters about his voyage, but don't worry, nothing could ever happen because the mother made up a fake name for the boat so that Frankie wouldn't question anything. Well look what happened! The boat with that same fake name showed up and now she has to hire someone to pretend to be the father for the day that the boat is docked in the town (Datline's To Catch a Predator anyone?), and who better than Mr-Heart-throb-I-want-to-bake-eggs-on-your-chest Gerard Butler?!!! I'm not going to say what happens next, but let me just tell you that this part of the movie will make a brother cry about as much as that time I was eating a lasagna filled with too much onions and watching Schindler's List at the same time. What makes this an important parenting film for me is that although it appears the mother is just going crazy moving all the time and lying to her son about the father, they are lies that are only meant to protect her son, now I'm sure some of you would raise ethical questions that lying is never good, but by watching the movie and understanding the reasons why they are always on the run, things will make a little more sense.
4 out of 5
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