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'Fairy Tale: A True Story'
In 1917, two cousins -- girls, one 8, one 12 -- ventured into an English dell with a primitive camera and returned an hour later with photos that captured a race of fabulous miniature beings, sustained on hummingbird wings, whose innocence and beauty had otherwise all but vanished from the world.
A world-famous author who had invented the modern mystery story and the modern detective (Sherlock Holmes), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole) was able to publish both an account of the girls' adventures and the photos themselves. A four-year stir ensued (the movie shrinks it to about four months). Harvey Keitel plays the American magician and anti-fake spiritualist crusader Harry Houdini, a friend of the writer and a co-investigator of the photographs. -- Stephen Hunter
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