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FairyTale: A True Story

  PG

Charles Sturridge

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Plot Summary

Two young girls who believe that fairies are real attempt to prove it to the world in this drama based on actual events. In 1917, there is little to be happy about in the Wright household in West Yorkshire, England. Polly (Phoebe Nicholls) and her 12-year-old daughter Elsie (Florence Hoath) are still grieving over the death of Elsie's younger brother, and Polly's niece Frances (Elizabeth Earl) has come to stay with them after her father was declared missing in action during World War I. Polly longs for some sort of proof that there is a life beyond our own, while the two girls ardently believe in fairies and enthusiastically study legend and lore. One day, Elsie and Frances produce photographs of fairies that they claim were playing in their garden; Polly believes that they are real, and soon the snapshots attract international attention. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole), author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and a confirmed spiritualist, declares the photos "as genuine as the King's beard," while illusionist Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel), who has devoted much time and energy to exposing phony mediums and psychics, takes a more skeptical view. While Fairy Tale: A True Story presents the appearance of the fairies as fact, analysis of the photographs proved them to be fakes (especially after the same fairies were discovered as illustrations in a children's book published before the photos were taken). The real-life Elsie Wright admitted late in life that the fairy photos were a hoax performed as a "little joke" and that she was always surprised that so many people believed them.

Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews

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52%
  • Reviews Counted: 21
  • Fresh: 11
  • Rotten: 10
  • Average Rating: 6.2/10

Top Critics' Reviews

Rotten: Flits, falters and falls flat. – Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today, Jun 24, 2010

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Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This movie is addorable for little girls and is perfect as a mother-daughter movie. I really enjoied the movie and would love to watch it again, as a matter of fact I just bought this movie. Even boys would like this movie everyone should watch it a least once.

Absolutely Dazzling

I've watched this movie so many times that i can recite it! It's a wonderful wonderful story about two girls who find fairies, but everyone else thinks they're just joking. Truly a magnificant film.

Cute And Fun!

This was my favorite movie when i was little! I'm so glad that is was added just so i could sort of relive what i was like when i was smaller. I loved this movie because of the wild world of fantasy that was involved. I mean come on, what eight year old girl wouldn't want to believe that faires actually existed?!

FairyTale: A True Story
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  • $9.99
  • Genre: Kids & Family
  • Released: 2003

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