The Tale (2018)
- Directed by
- Jennifer Fox
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 471 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A filmmaker investigates her own memories of childhood sexual abuse. She pieces together the truth about what happened and how it shaped her adult life.
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What happens
The Tale is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox and starring Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabelle Nélisse, Common, Frances Conroy, and John Heard. It tells the story of Fox's own child sexual abuse and her coming to terms with it in her later life. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on May 26, 2018. Despite making the film in 2018, she waited five years – and two years after her abuser's death – to reveal in a 2023 interview that her abuser was Ted Nash, a two-time Olympic medalist in rowing and nine-time Olympic coach. During the same interview, she identified her former riding instructor, Susie Buchanan, as an accomplice to Nash. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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