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 (2)
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)Cast
Laura Dern
USA
Best movies:
Jurassic Park (1993)
A Perfect World (1993)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Elizabeth Debicki
France
Best movies:
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Everest (2015)
Jason Ritter
USA
Best movies:
You're Not You (2014)
Brooklyn Brothers (2011)
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009)
Ellen Burstyn
USA
Best movies:
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Interstellar (2014)
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Frances Conroy
USA
Best movies:
Joker (2019)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
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Common
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Now You See Me (2013)
John Heard
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
Home Alone (1990)
Mindwalk (1990)
Isabella Amara
USA
Best movies:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
The Tale (2018)
Laura Allen
USA
Best movies:
Cherry (2010)
The Tale (2018)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Matthew Rauch
Best movies:
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Labor Day (2013)
Seven Seconds (2018) (series)
Jaqueline Fleming
Denmark
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The Wedding Guest (2014)
Tina Parker
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1985 (2018)
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Noah Lomax
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99 Homes (2014)
Safe Haven (2013)
Emily Sandifer
USA
Best movies:
The Tale (2018)
Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)
40 Days and Nights (2012)
Jodi Long
USA
Best movies:
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Scott Takeda
USA
Best movies:
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
Grant James
USA
Best movies:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Idealist (2015)
Tombstone (1993)
Juli Erickson
Best movies:
Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Christmas Child (2004)
Russell Bradley Fenton
Best movies:
The Tale (2018)
Secrets in the Snow (2020) (TV movie)
Valley of Ditches (2017)