'Fairyland' recalls a girl's life with her poet father in pre-AIDS San Francisco
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1970s San Francisco was a place where a young girl and her widowed, gay father could live a fun, unconventional life. That was writer Alysia Abbott's childhood before the AIDS epidemic. She wrote about it in Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, and the story resonated with filmmaker Sofia Coppola, who helped turn it into a film set for wide release on October 10.
Actor Scoot McNairy portrays Steve Abbott, who raises his daughter Alysia, at first played by Nessa Dougherty, after his wife dies in a car crash. They move to San Francisco, a city where he was able to live freely as a poet and novelist, a gay man and single dad.
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