Frauds (1993): Cast & Plot

Roland Copping, Phil Collins, is a boy who greets his eighth birthday with a small, hopeful ceremony. His mother gives him a pair of dice once belonging to his father, tokens of luck and memory that will come to drive his life. Roland and his brother Matthew craft a makeshift raft, and Roland, after rolling the dice, urges Matthew to climb aboard. They push the raft into the river, and the journey ends in tragedy as Matthew leaps onto an overhead crane, the raft careening toward danger. Their mother rushes to intervene, but in a fateful moment she reaches too late, and Matthew slips from her grasp, vanishing down the river over the waterfall.