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Answers: Ok, I can't remember the name of this movie!! It's about a mother and her young son. The mother left the father ( I think it was due to abuse) and tells the son that the father works on some kind of ship. She writes her son letters and tells him its from his father. One day, a ship pulls in to harbor that has the same name as the ship the mother has told her son his father is on. So she finds a man to pretend to be her son's father for a day. Can anyone help me please? It's not a very well-known movie, and I think the character's accents are either Irish, Scottish, or Brittish.

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DEAR FRANKIE (2004)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377752/
In Scotland, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) is constantly moving from town to town with her nine year old son Frankie (Jack McElhone) and her mother Nell (Mary Riggans) escaping from her husband. Frankie is a very intelligent deaf boy, and the protective Lizzie invented that his father is a sailor of the vessel "ACCRA", traveling though the most different countries and permanently writing to Frankie, telling his adventures. Frankie tracks the route of the vessel in a map, and when the vessel is scheduled to arrive in their coastal town, Lizzie decides to hire a stranger (Gerard Butler) to act as if he were Frankie's father for one day.

Actually, thanks to Gerard Butler's presence in it, it's quite well-known. "Phans" of the musical version of Phantom of the Opera~the film, that is~are quite dedicated to following Butler's career. He IS becoming noted with numerous starring roles.

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