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The Tale
She called it her first relationship for thirty years. Then she looked at the photo and saw how small she was.
Who it's for
The film is built around a common and rarely shown experience: an adult slowly realizing that what she remembered as a special relationship was grooming and abuse.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Jennifer Fox's autobiographical drama stars Laura Dern as Jennifer, a journalist and professor whose mother finds a story she wrote at 13 about a 'special relationship' with two adult coaches at a horse-riding farm. Jennifer returns to the people and places from that summer to reconcile her memory with what actually happened, gradually recognizing the relationship as abuse.
Where to find it
An HBO Films release. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: Child sexual abuse shown on screen.
Age: Not rated by MPAA (HBO Films release; suggested 18+)
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Freedom”
