Directed by:
Jennifer FoxScreenplay:
Jennifer FoxCinematography:
Ivan StrasburgComposer:
Ariel MarxCast:
Laura Dern, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn, Frances Conroy, Common, John Heard, Isabella Amara, Laura Allen, Isabelle Nélisse, Matthew Rauch (more)VOD (4)
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Jennifer, a globetrotting journalist and professor, lives an enviable life with her boyfriend in New York City. That is, until her mother finds a story Jennifer wrote at age 13 depicting a “special” relationship with two adult coaches. Reading the yellowed pages of "The Tale," Jennifer discovers the coded details she composed 40 years earlier are quite unlike her recollection. Deeply shaken yet determined to square her version of events with the truth, Jennifer sets out to find her two coaches. Returning to the Carolina horse farm where so much transpired, Jennifer's gangly yet tenacious seventh-grade self reawakens, and the loving stories she told herself for decades begin to unravel. (Sundance Film Festival)
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Laura Dern in a movie which pretends to have a story with a capital S, only there’s no need to pretend anything since that is the title of the movie. At the same time, it tells a completely simple tale of how easy it can sometimes be to banish any thoughts from your past when you can’t understand them or refuse to. As far as the actors go, it gets a little tiring half-way, but the ending is so jaw-dropping that it might take you a moment to collect yourself.
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