Fairyland 2025

"Alysia" (the engaging Nessa Dougherty) has just lost her mother in a car accident and so is growing up with her dad "Steve" (Scoot McNairy). He wants to move to San Francisco to make a new start, despite the protestations of grandmother (Geena Davis), an so they end up in a flat-share with a lively group of folks. Almost immediately, her dad hooks up with "Eddie" (Cody Fern) and her story becomes one of a girl (now Emilia Jones) living with a father who is clearly gay. As a child, she's pretty unphased by his lifestyle but as she grows older, she wants to know more about her mother and just what the dynamic of their relationship was. She moves away to study and that's when AIDS begins to rear it's ugly head at home and their tiny family has to start to deal with consequences that gradually encroach upon their own lives. Perhaps because I do watch a lot of gay cinema, this didn't impact on me as I had hoped. It does offer us a glimpse into the sexual peddadiloes of a generation of men finally feeling liberated from societal constraints and believing in their own, often cocaine-fuelled, immortality but the acting didn't quite hit the mark. Jones doesn't really stand out here - her e