Not only the family bonds but also those of friendship and tentative romance are traced with delicate economy and nuance. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "The filmmakers work close to the bone, finding emotional truth in hard, lonely lives He is a man who reveals nothing about himself, who holds himself behind a wall of reserve, who makes the arrangement strictly business.
The stranger tells her she is a great mother for protecting Frankie. The film is anchored in part by its setting in the kind of milieu more common to classic British kitchen-sink dramas or the films of Ken Loach than to anything this emotionally tender.
Lizzie, darling, listen, I - you cannot keep running, you got to face this sometime. A quietly told film that--by casually tossing in a surprise here and a plot twist there--builds up to an ending that carries an intense emotional impact. Auerbach and screenwriter Andrea Gibb spin a touching story that never descends into schmaltz despite ample potential.
Miss MacKenzie Sean Brown Marie arranges for her to meet an acquaintance who coincidentally is passing through town at the same time the Accra will be in port.
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Returning home, Frankie gives the stranger a hand-carved wooden seahorse as a parting gift.
Lizzie Morrison Emily Mortimer and nine-year-old deaf son Frankie Jack McElhone frequently relocate to keep one step ahead of her abusive ex-husband and his family.