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Asked by his therapist to tell a fable, a man recounts his unenchanting life as a lawyer married to a depressed, drug-abusing woman, with a disabled son he's struggling to raise. By filling his unremarkable story with sorceresses, magic, and true love, he attempts to romanticize a life he's desperate to escape.
The three wicked mothers of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White team up to regain their confidence and exact revenge on the daughters who betrayed them.
An eerie description of characteristic fairy tale elements and how they are embodied in characters.
A King receives refuses to listen to claims from his barons and other powerful members of his kingdom that his thirty-three daughters are wicked, for they are clever and outspoken, and they work hard to elevate the status of women and the poor, acts which the barons find threatening. When the barons kidnap all thirty-three daughters, the kind but dimwitted king must figure out how to rescue them.
A young kitchen maid working in a castle in the mountains believes a woman seeking refuge one late night is a disguised princess. But as she helps the supposed princess head to the ball to meet her prince, the young maid will need to reckon with the possibility that this is not quite the fairytale she believes it to be.
A creator whimsically imagines up his island and decides to add two women and a magic poker. By the time his imaginary characters row away, he is no longer sure who created who.
Eager to get his children to stop fighting, a father tells them a story about dragons and kings; things take a disappointing turn when the children realize that their father doesn't know the end of his own story.
After several years asleep, a woman wakes up to find her husband kissing her, though she now must face his abusive ways.
In this modern-day fairy tale, a young female protagonist butts heads with her overly-protective and potentially magically-endowed mother. As she grows up and has children of her own, she begins to understand the lengths that mothers will go to protect their daughters and younger selves.
A princess prophecied to bring about the downfall of her father, the king, must endure years of hardship and risk everything to be with her one true love.