Todd is bringing Eric home to meet his parents.
And himself.

Inspired by the classic Grimm fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood", "Fairy Tale" shows the struggle of a man who must decide between his heart and everything that he was taught. It is a tense examination of repressive family values and its effect on the life of a gay man, as well as the man he loves.

They have been going out for three and a half years. They live together, eat together and sleep in the same bed each night. And still, Eric has not met Todd's family. The couple decides to schedule a weekend getaway to his parents' house near the woods on the eve of his twenty-fourth birthday, but Todd grows increasingly anxious at the thought of the impending weekend home.

"It's about time, don't you think?" Eric says before they leave. But when they get there, the question has deeper significance than either of them imagined. Issues surface, secrets are discovered, and as Todd, Eric and Todd's mother Eleanor discover, even the best fairy tales have a dark side.

"This well-acted and understated short about love and betrayal is smart enough to know that not every story has a happy ending." --Raymond Murray/Tiffany Naiman, Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

"David Kittredge’s Fairytale is a nuanced, chilly film in which a young man brings his lover home to Gloucester, MA, to meet his upper-crusty parents and gets a reception as flinty and unwelcoming as the New England landscape..." --David Warner, Philadelphia City Paper

"In David Kittredge's Fairy Tale, a young man brings his lover home to meet his cold, homophobic parents; taut editing and framing underline their oppressive behavior..." --Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

Terrance Flynn, Eric M. Cole and Paula Roth star in "Fairy Tale", written and directed by David Kittredge. Produced by Melissa Ray. A Triple Fire Production.