Fairyland Review – Sundance 2023
The father-daughter film memoir Fairyland doesn’t quite bill itself as a biopic, but its beats nonetheless have that kind of familiarity. There’s the inciting event, in this case, the tragic and sudden death of the Abbott family matriarch, which inspires the newly widowed Steve (Scoot McNairy) to seize his chance and leave the stifling heteronormativity of the Midwest for the bohemia of 70’s San Francisco, with his young daughter Alysia in tow.
