So, when a dinner table conversation turns to talk of maybe losing the farm to debtors she asks to learn more, but her parents insist on shielding her from the truth, which is that her dad Abe (Kip Pardue) really is thousands of dollars in debt. A clear daddy’s girl with no real friends, she’s only just beginning to question her elders and what she believes to be true about the world. She’s young and innocent enough to have a pet chicken named Happy, but old enough to have come across her first dirty magazine and know the names of cities like Sydney, Auckland, London, and Timbuktu. Kennedy plays 11-year-old Gitty, a Wisconsin farm girl in 1982 with a deep love for stories and big dreams of traveling the world. ![]() In the end, it’s a lot of promise but not enough payoff, mostly watchable due to Reed’s performance and the strength and, at times, sheer beauty of Anne Hamilton’s direction. American Fable never leans as hard into fantasy as it could, and it fails to provide a reality worth getting totally invested in. If that sounds a lot like the setup for an American Pan’s Labyrinth to you, be prepared to be disappointed. Luckily, Netflix already has Reed’s debut film, 2016’s indie thriller American Fable, in which she plays a 1980s Midwestern girl who turns to fantasy to cope with an impossible situation. After the debut of Netflix’s buzzy, but flawed 90s teen dramedy Everything Sucks, you might be interested to see more of one of that show’s breakout stars, Peyton Kennedy.
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