
When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family's silo in order to save their struggling farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man's life or protecting her family from the consequences of their actions. AMERICAN FABLE is a fairytale thriller set in the 1980s rural Midwest about a courageous girl living in a dark - sometimes magical - world.... (Full plot summary below)
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When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family's silo in order to save their struggling farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man's life or protecting her family from the consequences of their actions. AMERICAN FABLE is a fairytale thriller set in the 1980s rural Midwest about a courageous girl living in a dark - sometimes magical - world.
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| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA haunting, moving, intelligent and gripping allegory. Peyton Kennedy gives a breakthrough performance. |
| Next ProjectionDerek DeskinsFirst time feature writer-director Anne Hamilton is staking her claim, this is her style, and you will do right to take notice. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAmerican Fable is ambitious, maybe too much so sometimes, but there's an intense pleasure in the boldness of the film's style, its confidence in what it is about. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe film beguiles more than it thrills, its plotting never quite measuring up to its atmosphere or its suggestions of deeper meanings. |
| Consequence of SoundMichael RoffmanWhile American Fable isn’t without its share of flaws, it’s the type of inventive production that hints of happier endings to come. |
| CutPrintFilmChris EvangelistaAmerican Fable signals the arrival of an exciting new filmmaker, Anne Hamilton. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenWhatever license the word “fable” grants Hamilton, it doesn’t redeem the narrative muddle. But there’s an undeniable gutsiness to her filmmaking. The American dreamscape she creates is memorably unsettling. |
| Film InquiryClint C.With a bit more energy and a bit more soul, American Fable could have been exceptional - instead, it's just very good. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe filmmaking is gorgeous and unsettling, giving the Midwest of the early 1980s a Gothic feel. The acting is hit or miss — two performances stand head and shoulders above the rest — but it’s the story that never quite gels. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerGorgeously shot, and helmed with a sense of daring and verve that belies Hamilton’s greenness to feature filmmaking, this is a debut of obvious promise, although its story never quite rises to the level of its craft. |