Written by Sean Parlaman The Tale, one of the breakout hits of this year’s Sundance, stars Laura Dern as a filmmaker named Jennifer Fox who flees her fiance Martin … The Tale is a 2018 American drama film written and directed by Jennifer Fox and starring Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabelle Nélisse, Common, Frances Conroy, and John Heard. "The Tale" is an unblinking portrait of how grooming works. The Tale is the true story of Fox herself coming to terms with her sexual assault as a 13-year-old. It tells the story about Fox's own childhood sexual abuse and how it affects her later relationships. ‘The Tale’ depicts a grown woman (Laura Dern) working through the realization that she was sexually abused at age 13, graphically depicting those horrifying sexual-assault scenes. The Tale. It's not her recollection of the sequence of events themselves, unfolding and escalating over the course of several months when she was 13, that changes, but the context in which she understands those memories — the story that she's been telling to herself about what happened. The testing of the waters. The subtle wedge Mrs. G and Bill put between Jenny and her parents ("Your parents are afraid of becoming free," Bill tells the child). It's heartbreaking, disturbing, and often difficult to watch – all of which makes it essential. In the era of #MeToo, it’s a raw tale of the daily horrors that pervade the lives of so many women, as well as an exploration of memory and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. It all happened during the worst drought the West had ever seen. The Tale is the true story of Fox herself coming to terms with her sexual assault as a 13-year-old. Fraud March 27, 2017 Two CFOs Tell a Tale of Fraud at HealthSouth Years after going to prison, disgraced CFOs try to make something good come from their crimes by telling finance executives how they went wrong. Long before the #MeToo movement had a name, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox was working on The Tale. Spoilers ahead for the original Tales of the City miniseries. The Tale has some — not enough — period ’70s flavor, but Bill’s counterculture cant about how people should be free enough to love whomever they want has unmistakable reverberations. ... Young Jenny is groomed by Mrs. G and Bill to believe that she is … It's heartbreaking, disturbing, and often difficult to watch – all of which makes it essential. The Tale is a movie about a woman coming to terms with the fact that she was sexually abused when she was a child. Bill A celebrated world-class athlete and coach, Bill is an imposing figure with a charismatic sense of purpose. He lives next to Mrs. G and trains Jenny and the other children in … The film, which first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before making its way to HBO on May 26, is the devastating true story of the … Bill A celebrated world-class athlete and coach, Bill is an imposing figure with a charismatic sense of purpose. The Tale Is the Perfect Movie for Our #MeToo Moment The film that left Sundance shell-shocked blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction, past and present, victim and hero. It's chilling. Fox arrived at Mrs. G’s for a summer of horseback riding lessons, and is immediately introduced to the charming forty-ish neighbor Bill Allens (Jason Ritter), who is Mrs. G’s lover and who quickly turns the charm on for Jenny, then gradually grooms her for rape. It was so dry that horses and cows started to dry up and blow away in the wind. Fox, a documentarian, turned her process of discovery into her first narrative film. And this, of course, also goes to the awareness of mothers, fathers, parents, family members. “The Tale” is meant to start a conversation, and that’s exactly why Fox wants it to be seen. The seventh-grade assignment, a narrative the teenager had titled “The Tale,” was about her connection with a riding instructor, Mrs. G, and running coach, Bill (both character names created by Fox). He lives next to Mrs. G and trains Jenny and the other children in … Pecos Bill, in American folklore, cowboy hero of the Pecos River region of Texas who was an exaggerated personification of Western stamina and values; his vivid exploits are analogous to those of the legendary giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan of the North Woods. The tiny boundary-breaches. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world. Billy Graham and Charles Templeton: The Sad Tale of Two Evangelists 2011-07-30 30 Comments by C Michael Patton As many of you know, Billy Graham and Charles Templeton were evangelists who rose to fame in the 40s (Graham, of course, is still an evangelist). So explain what happened when this Bill came to pick you up.