When Eddie’s gone, many other gay men come and go. It takes the spunky kid some time to adjust to the strange place, but does so after befriending her other roommates: the queer Johnny (Ryan Thurston) and his lover the guitar playing hippie Eddie (Cody Fern).
There are gay tenants and its run by the zany drug dealer Paulette ( Maria Bakalova). The midwestern writer Steve is notified that his wife has been killed in a car crash, whereby he’s left to care for his young daughter Alysia ( Nessa Dougherty, as a youngster).Īgainst the desire of his conservative haughty mother-in-law (Geena Davis) he drives his VW Beetle to the center of the bohemian counter-culture movement in San Francisco to get a fresh start.ĭad scores a seedy share-place in Haight Ashbury.
Her moving story is sensitively and maturely told by Durham, until it hits a wall and loses some steam but without losing how personal and intimate is its story. It covers a few decades in her life, as Alysia ( Emilia Jones as a teen) chronicles being raised by her gay single father Steve ( Scoot McNairy) and of caring for him when he had AIDS. (director/writer: Andrew Durham screenwriter: based on Alysia Abbott’s book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father cinematographer: Greta Zolula editors: Peter Cabadahagan, Lawrence Klein music: Michael Penn cast: Emilia Jones (Alysia), Scoot McNairy (Steve), Geena Davis (Munca), Cody Fern (Eddie), Adam Lambert (Charlie), Maria Bakalova (Paulette), Nessa Dougherty (Younger Alysia), Ryan Thurston (Johnny), Bella Murphy (Yayne), Isabella Peregrina (Skid), Ben Attal (Theo), Cabe Thompson (JD), Roman Gonzalez (Sam) Runtime: 114 MPAA Rating: NR producers: Sofia Coppola, Megan Carlson, Siena Oberman, Greg Lauritano, Laure Sudreau American Zoetrope 2023)Īndrew Durham is a photographer making hi s feature film directing and writing debut by adapting to the screen Alysia Abbot’s 2013 memoir: Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.
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