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Sundance: “FAIRYLAND”

Sundance 2023 / Premieres Selection

Andrew Durham’s debut feature “Fairyland” is an emotionally-rich character piece with an acute sense of time and place. Adapted by Durham from Alysia Abbott's book “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father,” Scoot McNairy is Steve Abbott, a writer and widower who, after the death of his wife, moves with his young daughter Alysia (Emilia Jones) to San Francisco in the seventies. Living in a shared ... more >