The story is a story written by Jennifer at the age of 13 to make her story with two schools in the school, where her mother discovers that story seems to be somewhat confusing. Jennifer returns to the horse farm to try to reconcile her version of the truth.
13 March 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 August 1953, East Hartford, Connecticut, USA
7 March 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
17 February 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 January 1985, Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA
19 June 1935, Medina, Ohio, USA
3 July 1977, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
12 May 1952, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
7 January 1954, New York City, New York, USA
May 26, 2018
The Tale is not a wonderful story by any means but it's so beautifully crafted by Jennifer Fox with a career-best performance by actress Laura Dern.May 25, 2018
"The Tale" is a push, then, to disseminate a hard truth - and by extension an argument for confronting the reality of abuse and abusers, no matter how painful that process might be. And it's effective. Frighteningly, unforgettably so.May 25, 2018
The Tale is above all a work of profound empathy, as a look inside someone's psyche would have to be.May 27, 2018
Ultimately, "The Tale" is a wrenching, heartfelt success.May 25, 2018
The film is one long interrogation, not only from Jennifer the character's standpoint, but from a directorial standpoint.May 24, 2018
Dern, not surprisingly, rises to the occasion as a woman questioning everything she knows. The power in her performance is in moments of quiet flux.May 23, 2018
The film feels like [Jennifer Fox is] taking us on a journey of self-exploration without a foregone conclusion, which makes the end result both satisfying and not satisfying, much like real life.May 25, 2018
Please do not call The Tale "a #MeToo movie." It's reductive. And this beautiful, gripping, disturbing film deserves to be looked at with as much nuance as it offers. It's not a damned hashtag-anything movie.May 25, 2018
The most shocking, upsetting thing Fox has done is tell a story about the malleability of our memories.April 10, 2018
The film is, necessarily, shocking but Fox handles what must have been difficult emotional material for her in a cool and responsible way that makes the message she delivers all the more devastating.May 25, 2018
In a performance that ranks among the best I've seen in any film (theatrical or otherwise) this decade, Laura Dern essentially stands in for Fox... a beautifully nuanced portrayal of a smart, accomplished, independent woman.May 25, 2018
Fox does well by her protagonists - both of them.