Three actors playing Frank at different ages don't connect, and the author's spunky humor is all but lost.

It was the schmaltz and also too many trumpets that turned off my son, Brendan, when I played Frank in the car.

Lancel added that he had liked playing Frank.

Michael Fredericks plays Frank, a man who carries the past with him like a torn fading photograph.

Braff also plays Frank, Oscar's long-suffering yet loyal assistant in Kansas.

If you want to lose it, playing Fearless Frank, you may.

She said that her approach to playing Frank was to "peel back the layers of idolisation and to think of the characters just as normal people".

Actor Sean Chapman plays Frank in his living state in the early stages of the film.