"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."
""Why do you only have boyfriends and never girlfriends?" Alysia asks him in one scene in the movie. "Because your mother was my favorite girl," he tells her. "And I could never love another girl as much as I loved her." Alysia grows up in a bohemian home, with her dad and their roommates. They sometimes dress up in costumes to go to parties and poetry readings."
A young girl and her widowed, gay father relocate to 1970s San Francisco and build a bohemian household filled with roommates, costumes, parties and poetry readings. The father lives openly as a poet and novelist while raising his daughter with creativity and acceptance. The daughter experiences a magical childhood full of wonder, rainbows and found family, believing the future will be bright. A film adaptation produced by Sofia Coppola brings the story to wide release with actor Scoot McNairy portraying the father, set against the backdrop of an era soon reshaped by the AIDS epidemic.
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