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Fairyland
Directed by
Andrew Durham
R
2023
1h 56m
Drama
6.6
96%
88%
5.9
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A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s with her gay dad.
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Cast of Fairyland
Emilia Jones
Alysia Abbott
Scoot McNairy
Steve Abbott
Geena Davis
Munca
Cody Fern
Eddie Body
Bella Murphy
Yayne
Adam Lambert
Charlie
Ryan Thurston
Johnny
Nessa Dougherty
Younger Alysia Abbott
Trent Allen Davis
Sean
Becky Leia
Sandrine
Isabella Peregrina
Skid
Matt Standley
Kevin
Jenny Slenter
Partygoer
Maria Bakalova
Paulette
Cabe Thompson
JD
Zoey Lack
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Colleen Bowling
Concerned Woman
Nicole Knodt
School Mom (uncredited)
Braden Cheers
Boy Cousin (uncredited)
Tracy Todd
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Fairyland Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
The performances from McNairy, Nessa Dougherty as a young Alysia and Emilia Jones as a teen/adult Alysia capture her aches and longing.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Durham's direction is sensitive and assured, and he does a great job mixing his location work with archival footage to create an authentic sense of what San Francisco was like during those times.
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
André Hereford
Adapting Alysia Abbott's acclaimed memoir about growing up with a single gay dad in '70s San Francisco, 'Fairyland' shapes the unconventional coming-of-age story into a moving, warmly funny portrait of a bygone era of queer life and liberation.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Strong performances and heartfelt intergenerational dynamics propel this otherwise predictable coming-of-age melodrama.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
This is an honest, real movie about people living big lives during tumultuous times, and coming through it damaged but wiser.
Movies Thru the Spectrum
Al Alexander
If you're not weeping by the film's bittersweet finale, I wouldn't want to know you.
Paste Magazine
Audrey Weisburd
Durham never lets the story collapse into despair. Instead, this is a story about strength and duality, how love, memory, and art endure beyond loss. The honest miracle of Fairyland is that instead of avoiding heartbreak, it shows us how to live within it
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[Writer/director Andrew] Durham simply observes these characters and the cycles ... in which they find themselves stuck.
Bay Area Reporter
David-Elijah Nahmod
Fairyland is a bittersweet story of a father and daughter who loved each other deeply in spite of their differences. It's the story of an alternative family and how they come to terms with each other.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
This moving film's sense of hometown pride is subtle but apt.
Loud and Clear Reviews
Daniel Allen
Fairyland is a well-filmed and interesting drama that is free-spirited in its structure and content. More often than not, Durham's film works because of the terrific performances by Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy.
MovieWeb
Jericho Tadeo
Fairyland is the little film the could, and Durham the perfect conductor to transport us across three decades of San Francisco's queer history, never losing steam, intention, or, most importantly, heart.
Arts Fuse
Gerald Peary
Who couldn't be moved by Andrew Durham's Fairyland?
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
His was a singular personality that would be difficult to replicate-though actor Scoot McNairy at times comes close, with other cast members in this bittersweet tale including Geena Davis and Adam Lambert...
AV Club
Murtada Elfadl
McNairy rises above the movie's sometimes hooky script to tell the story of this relationship in full. Because of his performance, Fairyland is ultimately, utterly heartbreaking.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
A very touching remembrance of a time, place and loved one.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Not always sure-footed but gets there in the end.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A powerful piece of work all around.
Variety
Guy Lodge
At its most thoughtful, "Fairyland" conveys a dual sense of loss - spanning personal loves and lovers, and whole historical moments and communities - in such small, sweet gestures as a head on a shoulder, a hand in a hand, a silence finally understood.
TheWrap
Katie Walsh
The emotion and intention behind the story, as well as McNairy's career-best performance, make "Fairyland" an astonishingly moving film and touching remembrance.
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