Frankie Starlight (1995)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Corban Walker	...	Frank Bois
	Niall Toibin	...	Handy Paige
	Owen Roe	...	Senior Customs Officer
	Gabriel Byrne	...	Jack Kelly
	Anne Parillaud	...	Bernadette
	Alan Devine	...	Boy On Beach No. 1
	Edward Naessens	...	Boy On Beach No. 2
	Laurent Mellet	...	Boy On Beach No. 3
	Ulrich Funke	...	German Officer
	Guy Verame	...	Interpretor
	Christine Keane	...	Mother Of Sick Child
	Victoria Begeja	...	Anne Marie Bois
	Julian Negulesco	...	Bernadette's Uncle
	Jean-Claude Frissung	...	Albert Bois (as Jean Claude Frissung)
	Corine Blue	...	Bernadette's Aunt

Storyline

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. Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>  

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