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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) Rank 3 Reviews
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San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)
San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
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Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)
Representative of the universal childhood, but also the historical childhood of western culture before the adult age of industry, civil engineering and planned growth where everything is now a chart or a graph or a grid or an algorithm and there certainly ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
In 1917, two English girls produced photographs that showed fairies. The photographs were published in a national magazine by Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and an ardent ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)
Fairy Tale: A True Story takes the fascinating history of the "fairy photographs" and uses it as a basis for a reasonably interesting family film. It could have been a lot more substantial, but even so it's a pleasant evening's viewing, and particularly ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)
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Urban Cinefile (Richard K)
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James Bowman
Fairy Tale by Charles Sturridge tells the story—sort of—of the fairy-photograph hoax perpetrated by a couple of young girls in Yorkshire in 1917-18. Now if you are going to do this on film, this way of doing it, with a bunch of ostensibly real ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at James Bowman
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Teen Movie Critic (Vivian Rose)
Austin Chronicle (Russell Smith)
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Washington Post (Stephen Hunter)
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Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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Steve Rhodes
Based on an incident that happened in England around the time of the first World War, the movie tells the story of two girls, Elsie Wright (Florence Hoath) and Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl), who claimed to have seen fairies in their garden. As ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Steve Rhodes
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
This is the first of two films made in 1997 - the other being the much more challenging and intelligent Photographing
Fairies - which take as their subject matter the Cottingley
Fairies hoax, a series of purportedly authentic photos of ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Secondly, although the film credits a long list of actors who play the fairies, we hardly ever see them on film, and there is virtually no characterization whatsoever. The girls call to them by name (implying that they have spoken), but we never witness ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
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