Such realities are initially lost on Gitty, who’s been forever enchanted by fairy tales, riddles, and bedtime stories, but slowly she starts piecing together the clues after she encounters the man stowed away in a nearby silo. Her family’s farm is on the cusp of impending doom, a sobering reality that her father Abe ( Kip Pardue) and brother Martin ( Gavin MacIntosh) attempt to solve by kidnapping a wealthy man ( Richard Schiff) for ransom. Set in 1982, we see this tumultuous era through the eyes of an imaginative 11-year-old named Gitty ( Peyton Kennedy), who’s caught between a rock and a hard place. Many lost their land, or were forced off it, and this is the fragile setting that Hamilton captures with a degree of magnificent surrealism and touch of Americana so rustic, you would swear it was ripped straight out of your pappy’s photo album. At the time, veteran farmers across America suffered the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, ranging from droughts to soaring interest rates, derailing property values to unfathomable foreclosures. Have you heard the one about the farm girl who took on Reagan? It’s called American Fable, writer and director Anne Hamilton’s fantastical thriller that sprinkles some dark magic on the Midwest’s terrifying farming crisis of the 1980s. The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival.
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