Fairyland (in theaters Oct. 10), directed by Andrew Durham, is based on the acclaimed 2013 memoir of the same name by Alysia ...

The sweet coming-of-age drama features memorable supporting turns from Geena Davis, Cody Fern, and Adam Lambert.

Fairyland is a coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Andrew Durham. It is an adaptation of Fairyland: A Memoir of ...

Lionsgate and WILLA have partnered to co-release the Sofia Coppola-produced film "Fairyland," which will debut in theaters on ...

Lionsgate has released a trailer for writer-director Andrew Durham’s coming-of-age drama Fairyland. Based on Alysia Abbott’s ...

Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy star in a coming-of-age drama set during the AIDS crisis in 1970s-80s San Francisco.

Starring Emilia Jones, Scoot McNairy, Maria Bakalova, and Adam Lambert, 'Fairyland' honors love and resilience amid personal tragedy.

Sofia Coppola is producing a drama called Fairyland, and the based-on-a-true-story movie has now set a release date for this fall.

Alysia Abbott teaches creative nonfiction at Emerson College and is the author of "Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father" (W.W. Norton, 2013). She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Book review ‘Fairyland’ by Alysia Abbott By Laura Collins-Hughes Globe Staff,June 1, 2013, 6:00 p.m.

Steve Abbott kept meticulous journals, and Alysia found early ones from 1971 to 1973 that she hadn't read before. It opened up a past that played very differently than what she remembered as a child.