![]() With very little money attached to his name, Steve tries his best to raise Alysia in a gritty city bursting with life and freedom. There, he develops his skills as a writer crafting poetry and begins to live his authentic life dating men. Her father, Steve (Scoot McNairy), sees an opportunity for a new start with his daughter, moving to San Francisco in the 1970s. ‘Fairyland’ follows a father and daughter chasing a new life in San Francisco L-R: Cody Fern as Eddie Body, Scoot McNairy as Steve Abbott, and Nessa Dougherty as Younger Alysia Abbott | Courtesy of Sundance InstituteĪlysia (Nessa Dougherty as younger, CODA star Emilia Jones as older) suddenly loses her mother in a tragic car accident. Fairyland is emotionally moving, but Durham’s screenplay trips a bit on bringing the source material to the silver screen. ![]() ![]() The story spans from her childhood to adulthood, capturing a longitudinal look into her relationship with her father in a city that became home. Andrew Durham makes his directorial feature debut at the Sundance Film Festival with an adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s remarkably intimate memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, shortening the title to just Fairyland. ![]()
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