USA / Germany,
2018, 114 min
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 (1)
Plots(1)
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)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Independent Spirit Awards
- 2019 - Jennifer Fox, Laura Rister, Lawrence Inglee, Lynda Weinman, Mynette Louie, Oren Moverman, Regina K. Scully, Reka Posta, Simone Pero, Sol Bondy (Best First Feature)
- 2019 - Jennifer Fox (Best First Screenplay)
- 2019 - Alex Hall, Anne Fabini, Gary Levy (Best Editing)
Golden Globes
- 2019 - Laura Dern (Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television)
Critics Choice Awards
- 2019 - Best Movie Made for Television
- 2019 - Laura Dern (Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television)
- 2019 - Ellen Burstyn (Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television)
Sundance Film Festival
- 2018 - Jennifer Fox (U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic)