Movie: Frankie Starlight

Year: 1995

Also Known As: A csillagok szerelmese

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Genres: Drama | Romance | War

Cast: Corban Walker, Niall Toibin, Owen Roe, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud, Alan Devine, Edward Naessens, Laurent Mellet, Ulrich Funke, Guy Verame…

Plot: This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life. In flashbacks, we see how he was conceived to a woman (Parillaud) at the end of WWII as she attempts to smuggle herself to America on a troop ship. Caught, she is put ashore back in her homeland of Ireland where she struggles to bring up her dwarfed child. Then comes an ongoing affair with a man (Byrne) who becomes a surrogate father to the boy, teaching him about the stars and planets… and calling him "Frankie Starlight." After that affair she meets with a man (Dillon) who takes her and the boy to America, but they are misfits in the prairie lands of the West and soon return home to Ireland where the boy grows to manhood as a writer.

Rated: 6.6/10 from 609 votes on IMDb

Release Date: 22 November 1995 (USA)

Runtime: 101

Tagline: From the Maker of "My Left Foot"

Countries: France, UK, Ireland, USA

Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Writers: Ronan O'Leary, Chet Raymo

Budget: N/A

Languages: English

Location: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland