Handsome, moody, and foreboding, this flawed film offers an adult perspective on the story told in the feature FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY (1997). The tale introduces fictional characters into the matter of the real-life 1917 "Cottingley fairies" hoax in which two English girls produced
photos which they claimed proved the existence of fairies. The photos were actually whimsical cutout drawings, but they were taken by occultists at the time to be "scientific" proof of the supernatural.
The widespread publicity surrounding the Cottingley fairy photos, spearheaded by none other than writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Edward Hardwicke), interest portrait photographer Char...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins