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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) Rank 5 Reviews
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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Fact or fiction, Fairytale: A True Story is a fine motion picture. Cast from the same mold that shaped A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, Fairytale is one of those rare family films that has the potential to appeal equally to adults and their offspr ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
If you've ever clapped your hands to bring Tinkerbell back to life, you have the makings of a believer. AndFairytale -- A True Storyis just the movie for you.But even if you scoff at the existence of fairies, you're likely to be ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
One of the lessons of the Bible is that a person who believes without demanding proof shows true
faith. Fairytale echoes and amplifies that message, adding that the purity of childhood is
a necessary ingredient to the unquestioning ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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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)
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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)
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)
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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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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)
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
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
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Nicholas Amado
The film focuses on a pair of little girls, cousins who roam the meadows looking for fairies. What sets them apart is from the adults in the film is that they believe in the existence of these little people, not only because they are girls at play, but ...read the complete FairyTale: A True Story movie review at Nicholas Amado
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