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Drama 93 min
Rotten Tomatoes85%IMDb
She became a woman in the middle of a kiss!
Tomboy, Frances 'Frankie' Addams, dreams of running away with her brother and new fiancée away from the Deep South.
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Intimate, character-led, prestige and contemplative.
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"Frankie" (Julie Harris) leads a rather unorthodox life for a twelve year old. As epitomised by their refusal to let her join their club, she is shunned by her more traditional neighbours' children aside from the younger "John-Henry" (Brandon De Wilde). She is largely left to her own devices by her loving but busy dad and it usually falls to their maid "Bernice" (Ethel Waters) to run the house. The fragile peace of the household is a bit shattered when her soldier brother "Jarvie" (Arthur Franz) announces his impending marriage. Somehow, "Frankie" gets it into her head that this could be her opportunity to join the couple and escape the drudgery of her life. Of course that's not going to happen - well not if "Jarvie" has anything to do with it. This rejection followed by a tragedy closer to home leaves her with demons to face that will cause her to question her own identity and future. Harris is good as the rogue daughter but it's really Waters who stands out here. She offers many of the traditional characteristics of the surrogate mother figure, but her own role has some nuances to it as it becomes clear that she, too, has issues that she must reconcile - especially as the denouem
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