Fairy Tale: A True Story
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Charles Sturridge
Lindsey Butcher
Ina Clough
Matilda Sturridge
Elizabeth Earl
Mel Gibson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Two girls photograph fairies in their garden in 1917 England, which astounds the world and forces people, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, to wonder if they too should believe in the magical world of fairies.
Cast
Lindsey Butcher
Ina Clough
Matilda Sturridge
Elizabeth Earl
Mel Gibson
Andrew Cryer
Sophy Griffiths
Don Henderson
Charlotte Champness
Florence Hoath
Dick Brannick
Anthony Collin
Lynn Farleigh
Hayley Tibbins
Bob Peck
Jason Salkey
Paul Mcgann
Tom Georgeson
Phoebe Nicholls
Anna-louise Plowman
Adam Franks
Caleb Lloyd
Anna Chancellor
David Calder
Philip Fowler
Lara Morgan
Simon Penman
Marianne Melhus
Harvey Keitel
Tara Marie
Joseph May
James Danaher
Ali Bastian
Peter O'toole
Tim Mcinnerny
Briony Plant
Isabel Rocamora
Anthony Calf
Sarah Marsden
Tom Sturridge
Anna Ramsey
Bill Stewart
Genevieve Monastesse
Bill Nighy
Angus Barnett
David Norman
Peter Mullan
Martin Gent
John Grillo
Willie Ross
Sue Barton
Anton Lesser
Carol Noakes
Alannah Mcgahan
Tara Kemp
Paul Popplewell
Guy Witcher
Jane Read-wilson
Katie Gibbon
Anna Brecon
John Bradley
Christopher Godwin
Stephen Chapman
Leonard Kavanagh
Jim Wiggins
Mark Tate
Benjamin Whitrow
Stewart Howson
Norma Cohen
Matt Costain
Sara Li Gustafsson
Peter Wight
William Lawrance
Barbara Hicks
Crew
Chris Allies
Maria Apodiacos
Albert Ash
Albert Ash
Albert Ash
Avtar Baines
William Bartlett
David Beavis
Christopher Blood
Mick Boggis
Peter Bond
Paula Borham
Jo Burn
Suzy Catliffe
Russell Channon
Eddie Collins
Eddie Collins
Ernie Contreras
Ernie Contreras
Ernie Contreras
Nuala Conway
Matthew Cope
Peter Coulson
Mick Coulter
Mick Coulter
Steve Crawley
Andrew Daffy
Bruce Davey
Roger Deer
Jim Dowdall
Simon Drake
Robert Duncan
Louis Elman
Lucy Fawcett
Michael Feinberg
Micky Finch
Wendy Finerman
Richard Finney
John Fuller
Mel Gibson
George Frederick Handel
Kate Hazell
Michael Howells
Margaret French Isaac
Drew Jones
Jacek Kaspszyk
Peter Swords King
Denis Kington
Nick Kirby
Nigel Kirton
Halina Laciak
David Lee
Andy Lomas
Laura Lovejoy
Cassius Matthias
Tom Mcloughlin
Tom Mcloughlin
Tom Mcloughlin
John Midgley
Richard Milward
Sarah Morton
Hermione Ninnim
Rafal Paczkowski
Clive Pendry
Jan Pester
Richard Pointing
Zbigniew Preisner
Sam Riley
Selwyn Roberts
Isabel Rocamora
Shirley Russell
Mary Selway
Richard Sharkey
Anna Sikorzak-olek
Philip Sindall
Janusz Strobel
Amy Sugdon
Ted Swanscott
Zdzislaw Szostak
Sarah Trevis
Paul Tucker
Tim Webber
Totty Whately
Pat Williamson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Principal photography wrapped August 9, 1996 with three weeks of special effects photography still to be done.
Completed shooting August 9, 1996.
Began shooting May 28, 1996.
Released in United States Fall October 24, 1997
Released in United States on Video March 31, 1998
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown at London Film Festival (Gala) November 6-23, 1997.)
Released in United States Fall October 24, 1997
Released in United States on Video March 31, 1998
Released in United States November 1997
Shown at London Film Festival (Gala) November 6-23, 1997.
Based on a true story which also served as the basis for "Photographing Fairies" which wrapped November 1996.
Lasse Hallstrom was previously attached to direct.
Pandora Films and producer Jonathan Taplin were previously attached to this project.
