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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) Rank 3 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give FairyTale: A True Story (1997) a score of 2.7672 out of 4
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Bitchslap (Thom Fowler)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)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)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)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)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)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 2.78 out of 4 stars for James BowmanJames 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
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Steve RhodesSteve 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
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for SF, Horror and Fantasy Film ReviewSF, 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
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)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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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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